bug#58147: closed (FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:12:04 +0200

Hi,

The faac package is considered nonfree in Debian[1] and also in
Parabola because according to the Parabola blacklist faac "is a GPL'ed
package, but has non free code that can't be distributed under the
GPL"[2].

The path chosen by Parabola (and probably most other FSDG compliant or
100% free distributions) was to make the packages not depend on
faac. 

A quick search in the Parabola packages list[3] can show some of the
packages having been (re)built without faac support[4].

Reference:
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[1]https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/faac
[2]https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/tree/blacklist.txt#n104
[3]https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?sort=&arch=x86_64&repo=Libre&q=faac&maintainer=&flagged=
[4]Parabola uses most Arch Linux packages as-is, and it excludes
   problematic packages and/or replaces problematic packages. This is
   why some of the replacement packages mention "without nonfree faac".

Denis.

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> Am Mittwoch, dem 28.09.2022 um 18:41 -0400 schrieb Mark H Weaver:
> > Based on the file names, I very much doubt that this library works at
> > all without the nonfree source files.  Therefore, we must remove the
> > 'faac' package from Guix.
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> >       Thanks,
> >         Mark
> Took me long enough, but I now removed it.
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