Hi everyone, We've had a lot of interesting conversation about the freedom of gNewSense. General stuff around the need for freedom and that not everything may be free in gNewSense.
The possibility of non-free packages in gNewSense is bug number 1 in the bug tracker: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00001 We now need people to start "stepping up to the plate". ie. start organising and doing this in a public way. The repositories are already split up alphabetically. My proposal is that people take personal responsibility for parts of the repository and start working on them. ie. someone will take a letter of the alphabet and take responsibility for checking all those packages. The creation of a new "freedom verification" section on the website where people can volunteer to take up a responsibility and then record their progress in the wiki. This needs to be a public process. ie. "J.Bloggs is responsible for verifying all packages under the letter T and this is the page on the wiki where you can see her progress". If people are already doing his work, then I apologise, but if this is not organised in an public/open way then we will continue in going round in circles on this issue Soooo, after all that, here's my personal "stepping up to the plate". If people think this proposal is a good idea; I will pledge to work my way through the letter "a" packages and verify their freedom. Now, that's quite a few packages, and I'm not 100% sure how to go about this verification. Give me a break, I'm a musician not a computer programmer! A good starting point, I think, would be for me to look at each of the tar.gz original sources that are in the gNewSense repositories and check the licence details. Would a search in the Debian bug tracker be a good idea as well? -- Andrew ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
