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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by juunpp on Sunday December 15, 2024 @09:47PM (#42427567)
No? The point is to keep the user's system free of non-free dependencies. As a user, I don't want to audit the several hundred packages that a single Rust application might decide to pull in; I'd prefer if such a thing were enforced instead. Otherwise, you might as well go use any of the hundreds of non-free distributions out there.

The Rust/Cargo license is also terrible grounds on which to build a free system anyway.

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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by duskwuff on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:25PM (#42427753)
The user could use a web browser to download non-free software. Is that grounds for disabling the ability to download files?

(You should have no trouble thinking of a couple more reductio-ad-absurdum examples, like wget, gcc, or a text editor.)

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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by juunpp on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:01PM (#42467587)
Strawman, what is absurd is your own reduction. Hopefully you see the difference between running a build/install command that pulls 100+ dependencies from the network that may change any moment without notice versus downloading a standalone software package that is appropriately licensed.

(You should have no trouble peering at the depths of your own stupidity.)

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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by p_l on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:14PM (#42427704)
... Not sure if such modification is not incompatible with GPL family of licenses, though, but I am not a lawyer (you're not allowed to combine GPL-licensed product, whether v2 or v3, in ways that create derivative works whose parts are licensed with more constraints than enforced by the GPL, with special carveouts for AGPL)
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