Re: Question about the project hosting requirements of Savannah

[Ar Rakin]

Thank you for the clarification.

On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 9:53 AM Svetlana Tkachenko <svetlana@members.fsf.org>
wrote:

> Hi Ar
>
> It would be better to utilize Matrix or another fediverse-compatible
> protocol. It provides similar functionality, without causing yourself and
> your peers to the injustices of communicating through proprietary server,
> proprietary non-standard protocol, for which the main official client is
> also non-free, as far as I am aware. In this context however, it is great
> to see that you are programming for discord. It is better than utilizing
> discord and not programming for it -- or writing discord chat bots whose
> code is not freely licensed. Thank you for your choice.
>
> About Savannah requirements and eligibility:
>
> * To run LightBot and interact with it -- to provide it with input and
> read its output -- will this require the user to use a discord client? Is
> there a discord client that is freely licensed?
>
> (In the scenario that program 1 that requires the user to run a non-free
> program 2 in order for the user to be able to utilize program 1, program 1
> is considered non-free.)
>
> Regards,
> Svetlana
>