Bug#876096: closing 876096

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) (2017-09-18 14:42:19)
> On 2017-09-18 14:14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > close 876096 0.9.7-3
> > thanks
> > 
> 
> honestly i think this is a rather pointless exercise.

Point is to provide our users with Free licensed software by default.


> what's the difference between the drumkits provided by the 
> "hydrogen-drumkits" package and the ones that can be downloaded via 
> the "free" feed?

The difference is that hydrogen-drumkits package provides our users with 
all the drumkits that Debian has to offer which are packaged, whereas 
the default Hydrogen feed provides our users with access to drumkits 
claimed to be Free licensed.


> why is the upstream URL being removed from the source-code? (rather 
> than just *adding* the only-free URL and making it the default?)

URL is replaced (not removed) because it contains non-free items.

Sorry, I thought that was obvious: That is the very bug being addressed.


> this is actively taking away the freedom-of-choice from our users, and 
> thus harmful.

Our users have the freedom to add additional feed URLs, same as they can 
add non-free sources to their APT configuration.  I fail to see how 
non-free stuff being opt-in is removal of freedoms.


> i would suggest to:
> - undo the fix for #876096
> - have hydrogen-drumkits only include non-disputed drumkits (which i
> think are *much* more than the 2 kits provided by the current feed)

I am currently working on setting up a service addons.debian.net 
offering a automatically curated feed, subscribing to one or more 
upstream feeds and stripping non-free and unlicensed items.

At first I am implementing for Kodi - when that is in place I will 
implement for Hydrogen, and update the patch to point to that service 
instead of the current proper but indeed quite limited feed.


 - Jonas

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