GNU bug report logs - #34399
gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg <at> mail.raghavgururajan.net>

Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 06:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

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bug#34399; Package guix. (Sat, 09 Feb 2019 06:49:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: "Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg <at> mail.raghavgururajan.net>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 06:31:52 +0000

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Hi,

I just found out in my GuixSD that gnome-online-accounts in system settings is showing options for Google, Facebook, etc.

Regards,
Raghav Gururajan


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Information forwarded to bug-guix <at> gnu.org:
bug#34399; Package guix. (Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:10:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 34399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg <at> mail.raghavgururajan.net>
Cc: 34399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free
 software/service
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:09:12 +0100

Hello,

"Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg <at> mail.raghavgururajan.net> 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’.
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 09 Feb 2019 22:11:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 34399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and "Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg <at> mail.raghavgururajan.net> Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 09 Feb 2019 22:11:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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