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bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:09:12 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
"Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <address@hidden> skribis:
> I just found out in my GuixSD that gnome-online-accounts in system settings
> is showing options for Google, Facebook, etc.
gnome-online-accounts provides options for the services you mention; it
does not refer to non-free software, though.
The notion of “non-free” cannot be applied to a service. A service
might be SaaSS (“service as a software substitute” as RMS puts it), but
that’s not the case here because gnome-online-accounts runs locally and
interacts with the services via HTTP.
Of course these services are a serious threat to user privacy. However,
Guix is committed to the FSDG and in that context there is no valid
reason to exclude or modify gnome-online-accounts in Guix.
Thanks,
Ludo’.