Hello Debian People ! Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) ships packages that integrate with web services (called in modern term 'Cloud Computing' or SaaS, 'Software-as-a-Service' if you will), such as the Facebook API. What if Facebook decides to close down it's APIs tomorrow ? Will Debian drop those packages from 6.0-stable release ?
I'm not saying such packages must not exist in Debian. They should. But (!) those packages interface non-free web services, which is politically no different than non-free software. Technically even worse, because web-software is likely to break at any moment, change APIs, or close down free access to it, and demand either NDA contracts or fee-based licensing. Perhaps they should be moved to 'contrib' category, because they interface non-free web-services. Debian's 'main' repository seems not the right place for any such web APIs. [1] Debian project clarifies the diff. between 'main' and 'contrib' here: http://www.isotton.com/software/debian/docs/repository-howto/repository-howto.html What's your opinion ? -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOJ6w=EhP-5S-p03=8DQXTo_OUz0ygqAQzdM692zWo=1jy2...@mail.gmail.com
