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| 2021-02-04 |
Raspberry Pi OS users upset by additional of non-free repo |
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The Raspberry Pi OS forums erupted with several topic threads following an update to the distribution which installs a third-party repository for Microsoft's VSCode packages. The new repository was added by the distribution's developers to facilitate access to popular development tools which the team feel are useful for many Raspberry Pi owners. However, the closed source nature of the VSCode packages, along with the lack of notice regarding the additional of the new repository, has many people protesting. One Pi owner wrote, "This editor is clearly not using the GPL license and is not free software, but the Debian packages are in the 'main' component, which is against the Debian guidelines, they should rather be in 'non-free' due to the license. Due to the license conflict I would like to ask you kindly to either remove that repository again from the 'postinst' script of 'raspberrypi-sys-mods', and if you really want it in, then please add it in a way the user can clearly see it's license and that it is non-free software before installing it, and actually has a choice about it."
The Raspberry Pi team has so far stood by their decision to keep the new repository as it is, stating: "Already discussed in another thread. We won't be making any changes to this, it is to help users install VSCode which is our recommended IDE for Pico development." |
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