Bug#697429: ITP: gitignore-boilerplates -- shell script for easily accessing gitignore boilerplate
>>>>> On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:24:00 +0100
>>>>> dr@jones.dk(Jonas Smedegaard) said:
> Question is not if the service is public, but whether the tool which is
> shipped with Debian is usable only in cencert with something not
> DFSG-free.
>
> Is gitignore-boilerplates usable only with Github, then I believe
> gitignore-boilerplates should be in contrib (not in main).
The boilerplate files is under DFSG-free license. And if the github
repository is closed, we can host git repository on other location.
> I do believe that tools usable _only_ with Twitter (not also e.g. a
> Twitter-compatible interface at Identi.ca) belongs in contrib, not main.
Twitter is only a example. There are several pacakges which depend on
private company services. If you think it is a problem, you should
also claim to remove several packages which depend on Google API.
> Independent(!) from the question of main versus contrib, my original
> point was (and still is) that I believe it would make a better
> experience for Debian users if gitignore-boilerplates as shipped with
> Debian could be made to not only do fetch-via-git-then-cache, but
> additionally (and, in my opinion, preferrably) do read-from-filesystem -
> and the package ship snapshots of the boilerplates offered upstream.
Whether upstream author agree or not, I can ship the package with
snapshot files. Because these are free. But I don't think it is
needed unless there is a cleary policy-violation.
> Regards,
>
> - Jonas
>
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