At Wed, 09 May 2012 09:59:49 +0200, Michał Masłowski wrote: > > Debian Icedove exists for two purposes; because of the trademark > > issues, and in order to meet Debian quality standards, but this > > program is not free because contains non-free addons and non-free > > searchplugins. > > aren't searchplugins trivial files stating how to access an > external search engine (we don't run these, so they have different > problems than free or nonfree software)?
Some of the "default" searchplugin files (trivial XML files) employ non-free or non-privacy-friendly network services. Because multiple Mozilla-based programs were all implementing their own list of "libre searchplugins", we now have "mozilla-searchplugins" on libre (used by Iceweasel and IceCat). Not urgent, but when the next package of icedove is being released, it should symlink /usr/lib/icedove/searchplugins to /usr/mozilla/searchplugins, and add 'mozilla-searchplugins' as a depenency. ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
