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Freedom Issue #1386

[pepper-flash] Pepper flash is not free.

eliotime3000 - almost 7 years ago - . Updated almost 7 years ago.

Status:
fixed
Priority:
freedom issue
Assignee:
oaken-source
% Done:

100%

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I don't understand why is PPAPI edition of Flash on Parabola Repo, if it is practically propiestary software (I mean, officially does not exist a source code of the official Flash plugins).

Otherwise, I wanna think that it was a bug from a bot.

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#2

Updated by oaken-source almost 7 years ago

this was added to the official arch repos today:

$ pacman -Si pepper-flash
[...]
Build Date      : Fri 30 Jun 2017 12:30:09 AM CEST
[...]

so thanks for catching it. If it is unfree (looks like it on first glance, but really don't know enough about it to say) then we should probably add it to your-freedom.

#3

Updated by oaken-source almost 7 years ago

  • Subject changed from [pepper-flash] R U kidding me? Propietary Flash Plugin on Parabola? to [pepper-flash] Pepper flash is not free.
#4

Updated by bill-auger almost 7 years ago

R U kidding me? :)

the PKGBUILD on the arch site shows that it downloads the binary directly from adobe
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/flashplugin

the license is "adobe personal computer software licence agreement" - i only had to read a few lines to see it was non-free as hell

#5

Updated by oaken-source almost 7 years ago

  • Assignee set to oaken-source
  • Status changed from open to fixed

thanks for looking into this. I added the entry to the blacklist.
the next rebuild should pick it up :)

#6

Updated by isacdaavid almost 7 years ago

#7

Updated by isacdaavid almost 7 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

it had been blacklisted as an Antergos package under a different name (for the sake of aiding with migration from said distro), then it got renamed in AUR and elsewhere around November.

this all makes me realize we aren't keeping an eye on those non-Arch packages we are supposedly interested in screening.

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