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FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58147: closed (FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 12:01:02 +0000

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From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:12:04 +0200

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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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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
 <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>, 58147-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58147: FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 14:00:30 +0200

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.
> 
>       Thanks,
>         Mark
Took me long enough, but I now removed it.

Cheers

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