[pkg-go] Bug#856139: Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises commercial service

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Sun Aug 6 12:37:21 UTC 2017


Hi,

> We have all kind of software advertising non-free services. Search for
> "Google" or "Amazon".

The important distinction here is not that that we mention services
that commercial (or even non-free), but rather between descriptive and
(quasi-) objective phrases such as:

    Cert Spotter is also available as a hosted service

and clauses that are bordering on advertising:

    … and requires zero setup 

I am uncomfortable with the latter appearing in long descriptions.


Regards,

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