What Frenk is effectively saying is that he doesn't want his packages redistributed by distros. Since this is a dependency of home assistant, this means home assistant (as the whole package) can't be distributed if his wishes are respected.

Additionally Frenk didn't react to any proposal to still distribute home assistant and it's dependencies while respecting his wishes. This seems like a pretty clear-cut case of involving the upstream community, to make sure they're aware and ok with their dependencies trying to block distribution or to change something if that's not the case.

The whole saga left me rethinking my home assistant usage, since it seems like this could become a larger issue with other distribution mechanism not sanctioned by upstream.

> You're expecting an entirely unrelated community of users to be invested in the goals and interests of NixOS.

Nope.

I'm expecting an open-source community to adhere to the intent of open-source, which is to provide software in a freely redistributable way to that puts users first in contrast to traditional Berne-convention-based IP approaches focused on author protection & remuneration above user utility.

Any community placing authors as dictators of the distribution of their work at the expense of users are not aligned with open-source in intent.

That's a perfectly reasonable stance if you have no interest in open-source: everyone is entitled to release closed-source software if they prefer.

Arguably the home assistant community is fragmented. What if Debian policy or whatever distro they use is targeted next?

IMO there was no discussion in that thread just "remove from no" "we can't do that" repeat