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Re: Docker Hub requires nonfree software to log in
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Docker Hub requires nonfree software to log in |
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Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:34:23 -0500 |
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> I think you're confusing two things: Docker Hub as a web site (which
> requires nonfree software to use during *setup*) and Docker Hub as an
> image repository (which requires nothing but Docker itself, it's like a
> package repository with automated builds per package). They may talk to
> the same backend databases, but they are not the same thing.
This is the first I heard of the distinction.
A concrete practical question: does it work to prepare and upload
images without running nonfree JS code?
If so, we can go ahead and upload images.
> Building an alternative to Docker Hub is an interesting proposition, but
> not a blocker to this work.
That seems to be a misunderstanding -- I didn't propose we do that,
only that we distribute our Emacs images from some FSF server. The
image is just a file, right? So we can distribute it any way that we
distribute other files, right?
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Dr Richard Stallman
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