On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:01:58PM -0400, bill-auger wrote: > i am no official - im just reporting what i have > seen
What I can see: On the first place, like for those: The following distros have been passed community evaluation for all FSDG criteria and are awaiting final review by the FSF licensing team. are Freenix https://freenix.net/ and LibertyBSD https://libertybsd.net/ Really great. However, I cannot see activity, there is little activity shown, so there are for example no bugs that can be submitted. LibertyBSD is great, but that is not yet mature distro, bugs, issues are missing. They cannot be compared to the excellency of Hyperbola GNU with Linux-libre kernel: https://www.hyperbola.info/ So obviously that page: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Incoming_distros#Distros_ready_for_final_review_by_the_FSF does not correspond to what I see, and those first two shall not yet pass community evaluation (even that shall be transparent process). Back again to subject, those distroes, just because they are on some wiki page that is not adequate and does not correspond to reality does not make them fit and proper to be included. The reasons why: www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html Commitment to Correct Mistakes Most distribution development teams don't have the resources to exhaustively check that their distribution meet all these criteria. Neither do we. So we expect distros to occasionally contain mistakes: nonfree software that slipped through, etc. We don't reject a distribution over mistakes. Our requirement is for the distribution developers to have a firm commitment to promptly correct any mistakes that are reported to them. Maintenance To be listed, a distribution should be actively maintained, and should give the GNU Project a clear and specific way to report problems of nonfree software that we find out about. It should also inform us when the problems we have reported are fixed. So those checklist items are simple not yet there for Freenix, LibertyBSD and ConochaetOS. Yet, Hyperbola is very well on that one. Wiki page shall be updated to reflect that Hyperbola is number one, and those others need improvements. And Hyperbola shall be approved as of today or realistic arguments shall be given why not. I don't see "lack of time" as reasonable argument, we speak of free software distribution, let's hurry up and do it. Jean Louis
