Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:50:38AM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote:
> In light of the recent Java API copyright rulings, I think that this
> license may need to be explicit. Personally, I am tending towards
> the idea that there would be a new license category for debian:
> "free-frontend", so we would have "free", "free-frontend",
> "contrib","non-free". "free-frontend" would be like "contrib" but
> rather than depending on non-free locally installed software, it
> would depend on non-free remotely installed software(aka Software as
> a service). I would put github and twitter clients in that category,
> but I wouldn't put Pidgin there, because Pidgin also supports free
> protocols.
Good that you mention Twitter: current events[1] show how finicky
such services can be when they depend on decisions taking place
deep in the bellows of institutions only accountable to their
shareholders.
But that's just the "practical" side. On a more general note, I
agree with you that it takes some vigilance to make sure software
freedom is kept while things are moving to "the cloud".
So, from me: thank you so much for keeping your eyes open!
regards
- -- tomás
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