Thanks for the prompt response. youtube-dl could be a workaround. I'll try
to get in touch with upstream author and explore alternatives then. Thanks!
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 2:15 PM Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote:
> 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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