On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately I've > been unable to determine the kind of freedom of Songbird. Could > someone help me?
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Docs/SONGBIRD_SOFTWARE_LICENSE_AGREEMENT It appears to be a hybrid with parts under the GPL and other parts under a proprietary license. In short, I'd avoid Songbird because the license makes Songbird Add-Ons non-free. The FSF considers free software recommending or including non-free plugins or other software to be A Bad Thing. (Not including or recommending non-free software is one of their requirements for a free software distro, and seems to be one of the reasons that Icecat was created as a completely ethical alternative to Firefox.) > BTW, If I successfully convert him, six persons will be using > GNU/Linux (more precisely gNewSense or Ubuntu when I fail to install > gNewSense), which means more than 10% of people are using GNU/Linux in > my department :-) Ubuntu is not a free software distro, FYI. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
