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Re: Why is it acceptable to have digital-ocean-configuration in the Guix
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Thompson, David |
Subject: |
Re: Why is it acceptable to have digital-ocean-configuration in the Guix? |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Jan 2024 14:22:48 -0500 |
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 5:34 AM Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to inquire regarding digital-ocean-configuration type used for
> provisioning DigitalOcean Droplets. I do not understand why it is acceptable
> to
> have this type in the source code. Reading the Free GNU/Linux distributions
> criteria[0] I see this sentence (emphasis mine):
>
> > This means they will include, and *propose*, exclusively free software.
>
> As far as I know DigitalOcean Droplets are not free software (please correct
> me
> if I am wrong). I contemplated on this for a bit, and I do not understand why
> it is acceptable.
>
> Would someone be so kind to explain the reason to me?
Perhaps this will help explain why you can't simply call a web service
nonfree:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.en.html
To use a different example: Google doesn't publish the source code for
YouTube. Guix includes the free software yt-dlp program that can talk
to YouTube and download videos. Would you consider this a violation of
the FSDG?
Guix also downloads a lot of source code from GitHub. Is this an issue?
- Dave