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Mozzarella may list non-free add-ons

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From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: 68361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: cnx <at> loang.net
Subject: bug#68361: Mozzarella may list non-free add-ons
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:06:07 +0100

On Wed, Jan 10 2024, Clément Lassieur wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 10 2024, bug-gnuzilla--- via GNUzilla bug reports wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I learned about Mozzarella from social media, so I missed
>> the official announcement of how it is curated,
>> i.e. automatically or manually added entries.
>>
>> Either way, I spotted ff2mpv being listed
>> although it is published under a non-free license:
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv/master/LICENSE
>>
>> The Firefox add-on page still shows the original Expat license though,
>> so Mozzarella inherit this metadata.
>>
>> I think cases like this are rare enough to not demand a web UI
>> to report extensions add-ons accidentally listed on Mozzarella,
>> but there should be a mechanism to manually remove it
>> from the repository to avoid misleading users into installing
>> proprietary software.
>>
>> BTW all Mozzarella pages have an empty <title>, which makes it difficult
>> to browse multiple extensions in different tabs/windows.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Phong
>
> Hi,
>
> I think this is an issue indeed.  But there is another one that is more
> serious: even if we remove ff2mpv from Mozzarella, all users who have it
> installed will have new updates pulling the non-free code forever.
>
> A possible fix would be to change the source of the add-ons, from
> addons.mozilla.org to Guix
> (e.g. file:///gnu/store/dxck0g51w8kzmzdn1nx97dsnp78jq4sv-ublock-origin-1.54.0-xpi/lib/mozilla/extensions/uBlock0.firefox.xpi).

Sorry my link is wrong.  That would be
https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/dxck0g51w8kzmzdn1nx97dsnp78jq4sv-ublock-origin-1.54.0-xpi.
But it wouldn't work right away anyway because the format is not correct.

> That would require us to sign our add-ons though.  I don't know how
> feasible it is.
>
> Clément

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