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

Shengjing Zhu i at zhsj.me
Mon Aug 7 18:25:51 UTC 2017


On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Dr. Bas Wijnen <wijnen at debian.org> wrote:
>> Example: [s3cmd]
>
> How is this not in contrib?  This software is useless without the non-free
> service (which is also software, and it is not in main) from Amazon.  Policy
> even mentions as an example for things in contrib: wrapper packages or other
> sorts of free accessories for non-free programs.  That's exactly what this is.

Maybe some off topic here.

The description of s3cmd is outdated. It's *not* useless without AWS.
It can be used with self-hosted S3 protocol compatible service, such
as Ceph RGW, minio[1]. Both are free softwares, and Ceph is in our
main archive.

[1] https://github.com/minio/minio


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Best regards,
Shengjing Zhu



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