Hi, On 2021-08-15 10:16 p.m., Antonio Russo wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question that I originally posed in debian-vote, but was directed > here instead: > > "Can one advertise non-free services in a Debian package? > Is doing so a violation of some Debian policy? > > Again, if this is the wrong venue, I'm sorry. > > The details are filed against firefox[-esr], #992208 [1] (which was > summarily closed without very much discussion). The non-free services in > question are Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. > > I would propose we replace these with things like lemmy, mastadon, peertub, > matrix, framasoft, fsf.org, and debian.org. However, if those become > contentious (and please don't consider this an endorsement by me of every > single one of them), we could just remove all of these pre-seeded > "top sites". > Without regard to the first part of this question (relating to what is allowed or not). I think as a free and opensource community, it would be better having links to free services. For sure Google remain Google as a search engine, but there's other that still do a great job. Same applies to Youtube and Peertube, Mastodon for social media, etc. And for sure, replacing Amazon by debian.org is a good thing. This way people would get a easy access to the main project site (or even a link to the documentation). > - Antonio > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992208 > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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