[Fedora Board issue tracker] #182: GNOME 3.12 pushes Google and other commercial, non-FOSS "apps" at users

[Fedora Board issue tracker]

#182: GNOME 3.12 pushes Google and other commercial, non-FOSS "apps" at users
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 Reporter:  sparks          |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major           |   Milestone:
Component:  Fedora Project  |  Resolution:
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 Blocking:                  |
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Comment (by sparks):

 This has already [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
 meeting-1/2014-01-23/fedora_board.2014-01-23-19.01.html been decided]
 during a meeting back in January.  Specifically "The board believes that
 shipping repository metadata that points at non-free software is
 incompatible with Fedora's foundations".

 GNOME is doing exactly this, now.  There is metadata being shipped in
 Fedora that points users to non-free software (software, that is in this
 case SaaS).  This is not an opt-in solution and best I can tell there is
 no way to opt-out (I've not tried to remove the metadata file so I don't
 know if that would break functionality).

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