On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 04:14:03AM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > That said, it is not sufficient to reject adding Fedora downstream spyware. > Fedora also needs a policy that upstream "telemetry" spyware is not allowed > and needs to be disabled at compile time or patched out. We have several > packaged applications wanting to "phone home" for this kind of "anonymized > usage statistics". This should not be allowed in a privacy-concious > distribution.
I'm not convinced that that's the exact policy we want, but I do agree that we should have a stated policy. There was some work on a "privacy policy for the OS" a while ago, but that basically ran aground in the choppy waters of legal statements -- and I think a similar attempt would run into the same problems. But, we could have a policy that _isn't_ a legal statement; basically a packaging guideline. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
