Hello, a number of freedom bugs have been reported at the ConnochaetOS Bug Report forum.
It seems that all this bugs exists in many (if not most) other free distros as well, which is why report them here, too. I also didn't found this issues at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines Personally I checked Parabola and Trisquel (couldn't locate BLAGs source repo), but other free distros might very possible affected as well. lame ==== http://www.connochaetos.org/forum/topic.php?id=1494 In lame-3.98.4/frontend/portableio.c * This code may be used and freely distributed as long as it includes * this copyright notice and the warranty information. So it can be used and distributed, but says nothing about being able to modify it. Found in ConnochaetOS, Parabola and Trisquel cdrkit ====== http://www.connochaetos.org/forum/topic.php?id=1493 found this note: By using a driver from an Apple CD and copying Apple software to your CD, you become liable to obey Apple Computer, Inc. Software License Agreements. The file doc/genisoimage/README.hfs_boot appears to describe a process where a driver is extracted from an Apple CD. That would be subject to Apple's licensing terms, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the package that says what they are. The free software community doesn't typically look to Apple for pro-freedom activities, so I have my doubts as to if it's free software or not. This notice also appears in genisoimage/apple_driver.c and apple_driver.8. So, README.hfs_boot describes a procedure how to obtain non-free software, which is clearly not desirable. OTOH, as cdrkit itsels is free software, and I am not sure if this is a case as describe in the FSDG: It could explain how to access filesystems of the proprietary operating system, import settings from it, and so on. That would be helping people install a free system distribution on a machine which # already has proprietary software, which is good. Found in ConnochaetOS, Parabola and Trisquel SDL === http://www.connochaetos.org/forum/topic.php?id=1492 found the license below in src/video/fbcon/riva_mmio.h. The license grant includes only "use" of the software. It doesn't mention modification or redistribution. Found it as well in Trisquel and likely in Parabola (couldn't find the source on their site). foomatic-filters ================ http://www.connochaetos.org/forum/topic.php?id=1491 found this in in: test/lsbfuncs.sh shfuncs.sh test/tcm.sh test/tetapi.sh # All rights reserved. No part of this source code may be reproduced, # stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any # means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, # except as stated in the end-user licence agreement, without the prior # permission of the copyright owners. This is clearly not free. It depends on what the "end-user licence agreement" actually is. According to https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2009-October/006190.html it refers to the Artistic License - question is - which version? Found it in Trisquel as well. I suspect it is also in Parabola, but I couldn't locate the source package. Freepascal (fpc) ================ http://www.connochaetos.org/forum/topic.php?id=1490 found the following in these two files: fpcbuild-2.4.2/fpcsrc/packages/opengl/src/gl.pp fpcbuild-2.4.2/fpcsrc/packages/opengl/src/glu.pp Quote ** Copyright 1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc. ** All Rights Reserved. ** ** This is UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE of Silicon Graphics, Inc.; ** the contents of this file may not be disclosed to third parties, copied or ** duplicated in any form, in whole or in part, without the prior written ** permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc. I'm not sure how unpublished proprietary source code ended up in there, but it clearly isn't free. Found in Parabola and Trisquel as well.
