drop non-free
@ddevault proposed dropping the non-free
section of aports. There are a few arguments that could be made to support such an action:
- Alpine should only distribute free software. Indeed, we only distribute free software in the binary package repos.
- The
non-free
APKBUILDs are poorly maintained. This can be observed simply by comparing the Git logs for thenon-free
directory by comparison to other APKBUILDs. - Having the
non-free
packages as a separate project outside Alpine is likely more useful to Alpine users, as that project could decide to maintain a binary repo, etc.
The main issue at present is that it is known that users are using the non-free
APKBUILDs, under the understanding that they have to build the packages themselves. If we decide to drop non-free
, some sort of documentation will need to be written to address this.