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Code downloads nonfree code.

FSF guidelines for systems forbids to "steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so."

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Jun 12 2021

jonas.smedegaard lowered the priority of T57: [multiple issues] chromium from Freedom Issue to Low.

This is a meta-issue tracking a bundle of issues, and as such is not in itself a Freedom issue (that it identified for each unblundled issue). Lowering priority accordingly.

Jun 12 2021, 04:14
jonas.smedegaard closed T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) as Resolved.

This issue is considered solved in PureOS.
It is true that the solution used for PureOS is not ideal, but it is effective: Users cannot accidentally or sloppily make use of the EME implementation included with Firefox ESR as shipped with PureOS, because it requires manually editing plaintext files to enable that functionality.

Jun 12 2021, 03:24 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

May 28 2021

jonas.smedegaard renamed T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript from PureBrowser - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript to firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript.
May 28 2021, 01:11 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

@adfeno I notice you mention lack of help examining, and also that you rely on licensecheck for your examination.

May 28 2021, 00:32

May 27 2021

grizzlyuser added a comment to T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

Please note that it looks like adding /etc/firefox-esr/pureos.js is only masking the problem. The underlying implementation would still be built in the package and available in the source code. This has already been mentioned in the last paragraph of this comment: https://tracker.pureos.net/T902#16752

May 27 2021, 00:35 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

Feb 14 2021

jonas.smedegaard claimed T57: [multiple issues] chromium.
Feb 14 2021, 02:32
jonas.smedegaard renamed T57: [multiple issues] chromium from [FREEDOM ISSUE] chromium to [multiple issues] chromium.
Feb 14 2021, 02:31
jonas.smedegaard added a parent task for T993: python3-pip: package manager configured to point to repositories containing non-free software: T991: [multiple issues] Feedback on "potential freedom issues in PureOS".
Feb 14 2021, 02:19 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard triaged T993: python3-pip: package manager configured to point to repositories containing non-free software as Freedom Issue priority.
Feb 14 2021, 02:19 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code

Dec 23 2020

jonas.smedegaard added a comment to T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

I reported this issue on my own (not driven by reports of others but from my prior knowledge in maintaining PureBrowser and therefore pretty exactly knowing how they differ).

Dec 23 2020, 13:23 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jeremiah.foster added a comment to T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

The plan that was devised consists of two steps;

Dec 23 2020, 13:04 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jeremiah.foster added a comment to T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

@jonas.smedegaard Did a user report this? Or is this bug from your own sleuthing? :-) I ask because sometimes the FSF rewards users who report freedom issues with GNU Bucks and there may be some at stake for reporting.

Dec 23 2020, 12:54 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

Dec 22 2020

todd added a comment to T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

This is important as we do not want to implement any browser prompt to install an EME plugin.

Dec 22 2020, 05:59 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

Dec 21 2020

jonas.smedegaard triaged T980: Firefox ESR implements Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) as Freedom Issue priority.
Dec 21 2020, 17:42 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

Aug 13 2019

jonas.smedegaard added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

@EchedeyLR https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/chromium

Aug 13 2019, 00:45

Aug 12 2019

EchedeyLR added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

@mak Please stop block chromium - it does not contain non-free code and is no longer unclear about licensing.

Aug 12 2019, 17:44

Jul 8 2019

adfeno added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

Also see https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Review:Chromium-REV-ID-1 or https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Talk:Chromium (the first link might be moved to the last one). Iridium Browser suffers from the same issues (this is described in the references). Also as described there, none of the lists is exhaustive, as we/volunteers from FSD lack some contributors specific for this issue.

Jul 8 2019, 02:29

Jul 2 2019

jonas.smedegaard added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

@EchedeyLR Thanks for investigating. Please however report any concrete findings as separate issues.

Jul 2 2019, 10:30
EchedeyLR added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

I think there is still a similar problem with Chromium like https://tracker.pureos.net/T663 due to Google dependence/promotion.

Jul 2 2019, 10:11
mak added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

@mak Please stop block chromium - it does not contain non-free code and is no longer unclear about licensing.

Jul 2 2019, 09:51
EchedeyLR added a comment to T57: [multiple issues] chromium.

If I remember, Chromium is not packaged on Trisquel due to more problems but I am not sure.

Jul 2 2019, 09:45
jonas.smedegaard reopened T57: [multiple issues] chromium as "Open".

@mak Please stop block chromium - it does not contain non-free code and is no longer unclear about licensing.

Jul 2 2019, 05:43

May 20 2019

jonas.smedegaard added a parent task for T102: kopete - optionally needs nonfree Skype service: T367: PureOS is not fully in sync with Debian.
May 20 2019, 06:17 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code, Freedom-harm: need nonfree service
jonas.smedegaard added a project to T102: kopete - optionally needs nonfree Skype service: Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code.

Correction: This _is_ a freedom issue, not because it (optionally) uses nonfree (or rather closed-protocol) service but because (optionall, when configuring to use that protocol) it downloads nonfree software.

May 20 2019, 05:28 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code, Freedom-harm: need nonfree service

Jan 7 2019

jonas.smedegaard added a parent task for T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript: T673: firefox-esr - default search engine is not perfect.
Jan 7 2019, 08:51 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

Dec 18 2018

jonas.smedegaard added a subtask for T57: [multiple issues] chromium: T241: chromium - promotes non-free NVIDIA driver via (embedded copy of) libxnvctrl.
Dec 18 2018, 14:59

Nov 19 2018

jonas.smedegaard added a comment to T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript.

@sean.obrien I now clarified scopes of issues T110 and T156, and here.

Nov 19 2018, 11:42 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard updated the task description for T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript.
Nov 19 2018, 11:28 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard added a comment to T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript.

This issue is now about PureBrowser linking to DuckDuckGo non-free JavaScript.

Nov 19 2018, 11:02 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard renamed T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript from replace DuckDuckGo.com home page in the web browser to PureBrowser - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript.
Nov 19 2018, 10:58 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard added projects to T609: firefox-esr - links to search engine which loads non-free JavaScript: Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code, Restricted Project.

Even if this was meant (also) as a duplicate of T110, we can reuse it to track (only) the related issue of avoiding Javascript not Free licensed.

Nov 19 2018, 10:54 · Restricted Project, Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code

Aug 7 2018

jonas.smedegaard added a parent task for T532: purebrowser: Home screen advertises Firefox brand with links to Mozilla addons service: T299: [multipe issues] firefox-esr: promotes upstream-distributed addons.
Aug 7 2018, 04:59 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard updated the task description for T532: purebrowser: Home screen advertises Firefox brand with links to Mozilla addons service.
Aug 7 2018, 04:56 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard created T532: purebrowser: Home screen advertises Firefox brand with links to Mozilla addons service.
Aug 7 2018, 04:55 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code

Apr 5 2018

mak closed T57: [multiple issues] chromium as Resolved.

@zlatan.todoric LibreOffice build-depends on chromium, so this will be quite annoying.
Package is removed from PureOS now, but we will need to find a solution for LO...

Apr 5 2018, 15:27

Mar 25 2018

zlatan.todoric reassigned T57: [multiple issues] chromium from hema.prathaban to mak.

@mak remove and block from re-entering the chromium package from archive as GNU-libre ML is pointing this out.

Mar 25 2018, 02:44

Nov 10 2017

jonas.smedegaard renamed Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code from downloads nonfree code to Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code.
Nov 10 2017, 06:07

Nov 9 2017

jonas.smedegaard created T246: gnome-initial-setup: Supports downloading additional software, including nonfree software.
Nov 9 2017, 19:15 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code

Nov 1 2017

jonas.smedegaard renamed T106: hydrogen - promotes non-free code via runtime addons download feature from hydrogen-drumkits - contain nonfree code to hydrogen - promotes non-free code via runtime addons download feature.
Nov 1 2017, 21:51 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code

Oct 26 2017

jonas.smedegaard changed the visibility for Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code.
Oct 26 2017, 12:39

Oct 24 2017

jonas.smedegaard edited projects for T57: [multiple issues] chromium, added: Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code, Freedom-harm: license not FSF-compliant; removed Freedom.
Oct 24 2017, 16:33
jonas.smedegaard closed T209: Kodi: Promotes non-free code via runtime addons download feature as Resolved.

Fixed kodi finally arrived in PureOS.

Oct 24 2017, 16:00 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard edited projects for T209: Kodi: Promotes non-free code via runtime addons download feature, added: Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code; removed Freedom.
Oct 24 2017, 08:12 · Freedom-harm: downloads potentially nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard updated the task description for T100: clementine - installs non-free plugin at runtime.
Oct 24 2017, 06:14 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard renamed T100: clementine - installs non-free plugin at runtime from [FREEDOM ISSUE] clementine - installs non-free plugin at runtime to clementine - installs non-free plugin at runtime.
Oct 24 2017, 06:13 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard removed a parent task for T74: smplayer: T229: nil.
Oct 24 2017, 05:50 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code, Freedom-harm: enhanced by nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard added a project to T74: smplayer: Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code.
Oct 24 2017, 05:46 · Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code, Freedom-harm: enhanced by nonfree code
jonas.smedegaard updated the image for Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code from F31595: fa-flag-checkered-green.png to F31597: profile.
Oct 24 2017, 05:45
jonas.smedegaard created Freedom-harm: downloads nonfree code.
Oct 24 2017, 05:45