On Monday 20 November 2006 00:54, Brian Kemp wrote: > > But there are some real free software issues about Firefox. The > > biggest one is that it is set up to offer downloads of non-free > > plug-ins from Mozilla's own site. > > What do we want to do about this? > > My 2 cents: Not much. > > If we could warn people that might be nice. But don't block them, > otherwise we just trampled all over Freedom 0. > > It'd be nice if MoFo put something about the license for a plugin on > their plugins page, but I do not think it'll happen. > > We could alternately run our own plugins repository, perhaps with the > help of Debian and GNU/FSF and anyone else planning to use Iceweasel. > That would require some coordination but it might just be the best. > > Just because everything about gNewSense is going to be > free-as-in-freedom doesn't mean it's going to be used that way. (Lots > of folk on the Ubuntu forums run those non-free installer programs on > first boot. I am not one of them.) It doesn't make sense for a distro > that's advertising its freeness, but the programs can be used for any > purpose. > > (Sorry for the late hit. I'm Broam on IRC, and I'm going to be > working with Karl Goetz on licensing. Oh, and I'm a real cynic, but > you got that much already. And I'm really, really glad to be here.) >
Actually, it's got nothing to do with freedom 0. That is the freedom to run a programme for any purpose, not an obligation to supply a programme that runs in any particular way. The point is that gNewSense should be promoting free software, and not supplying software that promotes non-free software. That's very different to putting restrictions on anybody who wants to re-write the code to make things run differently. -- Andrew Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
