----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:19:10 PM > Subject: Re: Proposal: Revision of policy surrounding 3rd party and non-free software > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:13:12PM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > > The basic idea of the proposal is to get away from Googling being the only > > tool we offer our users to find the software they need. > > > > Of course what we could do here is build in web search functionality into > > the Software app, so that when you search for 'pdf viewer' it queries > > google or similar > > for sites with repository metadata and if it finds a repository which > > contains the 'pfd viewer' keyword it adds it to your Software app search > > result. > > It is a convoluted way of doing things, but since nobody objects to us > > packaging stuff that can search for things on the web, like Firefox, I > > guess we should be fine. > > Don't be ridiculous. The distinction between a tool that exists in order > to let users find non-free software and a general purpose tool that can > be used by users to find non-free software is obvious. > There is nothing non-free specific about what I proposed here, we have no way of knowing if those 3rd party repositories it finds contains non-free software or not, just like you have no way of knowing what kind of sofware a google search will find for you. All I described was a general purpose tool for finding software. Christian _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
