On May 11 2020, hyiltiz wrote:
> Package: parallel
> Version: 20161222-1.1
> Severity: minor
>
> A GNU Project software should not really recommend resources in non-free
> platforms that
> require running non-free software (propriatery javascript).
(...)
> Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
That's what the upstream author could use to host his instructional
videos. I guess that there's no solution to this, unless the upstream author
can upload those videos to other platform.
If you don't want to have the proprietary javascript running on your system,
you can download the instructional videos with youtube-dl (which I also
maintain, BTW), which only parses the minimum of javascript to grab the
needed information to download the videos.
I guess that, in the absence of other solutions, this is a non-issue and I'm
considering marking it as wontfix.
Cheers,
Rogério Brito.
P.S.: Funny that you're talking about non-free stuff while you're using
proprietary modules in your kernel. And that your message-id contains the
string iPhone. Your point about a GNU package still stands, though.
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