On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, 20:51:03 EST, Ramana Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > I would like help with advising them (entering that conversation on > > > the boinc-dev mailing list is preferable), and eventually to approve > > > the blacklist removal. > > > Anyone qualified to do so, please do. > > > > Not sure i understand this bit. > > I mean I would like someone else to make particular recommendations > about how to deal with boinc's freedom issues on the boinc-dev mailing > list. > They seem willing to listen. >From reading the list it seems they have decided to remove glut and note that >the tclient should work without it (which i guess means libre distros can >remove it now if they wish). http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2012-July/018787.html http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2012-July/018788.html (first paragraph) > I recommended a strategy (whitelisting known free apps) from the > LibrePlanet wiki, but I am not really expert in how much they would > have to do to make it qualify as free software. Not offering to install, and not installing proprietary software automatically would be required. I dont know how upstream would feel, but i suspect a compile time option is the best we will manage. This post (1) sounds like its possible to build it in such a way, but introduces extra difficulty in install. If your distro pre packaged libre boinc addons that would help eliminate the problem - as debian does with seti@home and others (2). (1) http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2012-July/018788.html (2) http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=boinc > > P.S. include me in the CC if you reply because I'm not subscribed to > this list. Done, and btw: Someone said "A lot of things "come with" the source code of BOINC. Did you also delete the "Copyright Microsoft, All rights reserved" DLLs in 'win_build', and the NVIDIA stuff in 'coprocs'?" (3). Debian do this (4), so its derivatives get that freedom free :) (3) http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2012-July/018790.html (4) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.source;h=6591892e7b9cb92c4b6ca78b8b50f276f387a186;hb=HEAD line 50+ thanks, kk
