Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which > automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. can you point to current examples in Debian main, either in sid or stretch? -- cheers, H

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which > automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. > > The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories > containing both free and non-f

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. Why would the project do that, though? > (There are even whole Debian derivatives who have as one of their > primary goals, preventing this. Good. > We should aim for most of the chang

Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
This mail is going to a lot of lists. I have set the followups to d-policy because ultimately this is hopefully going to result in a change to policy. Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. The obvious