Re: [security-discuss] FSF has a duty to flag GNU Radio for violations (was: s/w that requires middleman..)

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   [ We were asked to not include directory-discuss in this
   discussion. I am removing it. ]

Thanks.

   >    When a GFDL is packaged with *some* documentation (any at all), I
   >    believe the GFDL becomes enforceable.  And consequently, the act of
   >    excluding some documentation from the package then becomes legally
   >    actionable, and rightly so.  
   > 
   > Removing documentation from a software program is legal, and
   > protected under the four software freedoms.

   The issue is not about excluding documentation from the program.

It is one of the issues the OP raised.

   The alleged "violation" relates to gnuradio.org using cloudflare, so
   that TOR users face a proprietary captcha and are unable to get a copy
   of the program or its documentation from the official website. These
   users still are able to download a copy of the program via other means,
   such as from a distribution packages source archives.

There is never a guarantee that you can download free software over a
specific, be it via HTTP or some other protocol.  If you want, you can
provide free software on paper for all anyone cares -- would be
annoying but nothing ethically or morally unjust about it and
explicitly protected by the four freedoms, and the GNU GPL.