Re: [GNU-linux-libre] GNU FSDG and SaaSS

[bill-auger]

to state my opinion on the proposal, this is a "no-brainer" yes

this "no SaaSS" requirement ought to be easy and painless for
distros to follow; because whichever SaaSS client is in
question, most often with SaaSS, the service is duplicating an
"offline" tool which has existed for many years

so, by definition, there is probably some libre substitute which
accomplishes that task and runs locally; and if that task is
common or important, the distro probably already distributes a
tool which accomplishes that task - so even if the SaaSS tool
were acceptable, it is still redundant, duplicating
functionality that the distro already has

in this specific case for parabola, apertium was already in the
repos - the decision to remove ydcv (and another similar tool
which appeared around the same time 'translate-shell') was
inconsequential - no functionality was lost from the distro in
their absence

my criteria would be, that in order for some SaaSS client to be
acceptable, there must exist some known way to use that client
with a compatible libre service, running locally or self-hosted;
and that the client should not be able to access any specific
remote service by default - it could be pre-configured for a
localhost service by default, but be otherwise useless
out-of-the-box, without a locally running service, pending
manual configuration for any specific remote server

that would be acceptable because, it is not SaaSS, except when
configured for a specific remote SaaSS service