Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

[Nils Gillmann]

Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> Hi Nils,
> 
> Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> >
> >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have
> >> more-or-less ready snippets available?
> >
> > I can not post the link to straight-out of the box Thunderbird here
> > (current repository is against the policy in Guix), but if you really
> > want to work on it I can send you the link offlist (just contact me at
> > address@hidden).
> 
> Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary
> Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list?

No. It just exists in a branch in an (experimental, fluid) repository where
other nonfree software (partially as a base for other builds to be upstreamed)
is located in, which is why I mentioned "policy reasons". If that's an exception
I could link to the cgit, I'll do it of course.

If the repo is not okay, I can send a mbox formated patch.

> If so, can you show me the email?
> 
> It's true that we shouldn't post package definitions for nonfree
> software on the Guix mailing lists.  However, Thunderbird/Icedove has
> only a couple of known freedom issues which have apparently already been
> addressed in Parabola GNU/Linux:
> 
>   
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#Thunderbird
> 
> Given that a GNU FSDG compliant version of Thunderbird/Icedove already
> exists, and that we could surely apply the same fixes to our package, I
> see no problem with you posting your preliminary package definition.
> Please do so.  It would enable other interested developers to continue
> your work.
> 
>     Regards,
>       Mark