On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 07:35:19AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 05:09:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> note that free software interfaces to proprietary cloud platforms are > >> frequently used to manipulate the data in those platforms including > >> pull data *out* of those platforms. It would be quite ironic if we > >> refused to include in the distribution the tools required to pull one's > >> data out of non-free platforms. > > > An interface to facebook or to twitter or to the internet movie database > > or to websites with stock quotes may be freely redistributed but > > "requires software outside of the distribution to function". Why do we > > make exceptions depending on how "ironic" things are ? > > Because, similar to how all evil plans for taking over the world should be > run past a fifth grader first, all grand principles of ideology should be > checked for whether their actual outcomes are silly.
Which is why I'm open to change debian-policy or move packages from main to contrib depending on what's the least silly. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130320180025.gf28...@master.debian.org
