AppStream Ideas and Thoughts

[James Rhodes]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> - make sure each package is free software;
>> This can be easily seen from the package installation window?
> Provided you trust the author.  There have been many cases where a
> package proved to contain non-free parts, with or without knowledge of
> the author.

Yet you're trusting the author when you install the application onto
your system?  To be perfectly honest, if you can't trust the author to
know his own source code (whether it contains non-free components or
not), can you trust him that the code is safe to run your machine in
the first place?  :)

Regards, James.