Comment by jchw
5 years ago
It's being added as a dependency to home assistant, a popular package, so they are pretty much between a rock and a hard place. Ultimately, if the author of the code doesn't want it redistributed by distributions, I assume home assistant will have to remove it from upstream. It might be good for someone to raise the flag with home assistant since this is apparently becoming a point of contention with two different distros now.
It appear this has already been done, and the founder of home assistant seems to be supporting the developer. [0]
I'm starting to get the feeling that home automation might be somewhat hostile to repackaging.
[0] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi...
This is unfortunate, but I suppose it joins the growing list of open source things that I have to avoid because I don't want to support behavior that's hostile/antithetical to the health of the open source ecosystem. It's a damn shame, but nothing new.