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Add contribution note about proprietary services

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...@@ -82,6 +82,26 @@ giving the user control over these decisions is not possible. Developers ...@@ -82,6 +82,26 @@ giving the user control over these decisions is not possible. Developers
need to decide what should resonably be followed. need to decide what should resonably be followed.
The case on supporting non-free services
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Defined by the `Free Software Definition`_, it is an essential freedom to
be allowed to use free software for any purpose, without limitation. Thus,
interoperability with non-free services shall not be ruled out, and the
BiscuIT project explicitly welcomes implementing support for
interoperability with non-free services.
However, to purposefullt foster free software and services, if
interoperability for a certain kind of non-free service is implemented, this
must be done in a generalised manner (i.e. using open protocols and
interfaces). For example, if implementing interoperability with some
cloud-hosted calendar provider can be implemented either through a
proprietary API, or through a standard iCalendar/Webcal interfaces, the
latter is to be preferred. Lacking such support, if a proprietary service
is connected through a proprietary, single-purpose interface, measures shall
be taken to also support alternative free services.
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...@@ -105,4 +125,5 @@ licence possible. ...@@ -105,4 +125,5 @@ licence possible.
.. _Sane software manifesto: https://sane-software.globalcode.info/ .. _Sane software manifesto: https://sane-software.globalcode.info/
.. _Accessibility Manifesto: http://accessibilitymanifesto.com/ .. _Accessibility Manifesto: http://accessibilitymanifesto.com/
.. _User Data Manifesto: https://userdatamanifesto.org/ .. _User Data Manifesto: https://userdatamanifesto.org/
.. _Free Software Definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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