[Dev] We do not blacklist support, for God's sake!!!

Jorge Araya Navarro jorgean at lavabit.com
Tue Jan 8 01:05:58 GMT 2013


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o/

Usually, I'm not aware what happens with Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.
However, I have detected a very... annoying pattern of blacklisting free
software packages just because they provide some support to pieces of
hardware that use evil proprietary software. That don't make sense at
all. If a software is proprietary from it's roots, we blacklist'd it. If
a software is free software but it needs proprietary to works (and we
cannot fix such issue to make it fully functional), we blacklist'd it.
If a software is free software but recommends the installation of
proprietary software, we try to patch it, but if such thing isn't
possible (as with Desurium, for instance), we blacklist'd it... I don't
have to go further, we know how this works.

So please, please, please, do not blacklist support that relays on free
software with the excuse of "is a package that is useful only with
nonfree (external) hardware" or "is a package that is useful only to
build software that only can be used on a nonfree OS".

Peace be with you all,
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Jorge Araya Navarro
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