* bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> [2019-11-27 22:59]: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:05:50 +0100 Jean wrote: > > For users, users should not need to run liberation scripts when > > getting distribution. They shall get the full free software > > without the process of liberation. > > that is already true for every FSDG distro currently - no one > "needs" to run the liberation scripts in order to get a complete > system made of entirely free software - generally, the build > scripts are published for the curious and ambitious
Is that really so? I do hope it is. But I am not sure that it is so. > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:05:50 +0100 Jean wrote: > > It is > > system of preparing software on the computer, but is not > > distribution. > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:05:50 +0100 Jean wrote: > > Distribution should have capacity to be duplicated > > that is a rather narrow categorization of a distribution - Sounds like you take it out of the context. I never said that is the only characteristic of distribution. I am saying, make the final product for the user. Don't let users download non-free software to make free software out of it. > specifically that is describing a "binary distribution" - > there are also "source-based distributions", in which the Both can be duplicated, so I don't see what you are pointing out. GNU was distributed as source distribution long ago before Linux kernel came. It is so that it can be shared. And when it is shared users are getting free software. If I, as user, get the liberating scripts that drives me to download some non-free software and then convert it to free scripts, this drives me to non-free software clearly. It gives me chance to have it on my mediums, and even the chance to share non-free software. Thus such scripts shall be executed and run before putting software for distribution on any medium for sharing with others. Is it binary or source, it does not matter. For liberating scripts, in my first email I already said that such could/should be packaged in the distribution for anybody to be able to prepare the distribution, I have never mentioned any elites or any those other things, neither ever vouch in my life for non-free software. But you may discuss something that was not even mentioned. Actually, who said ever that liberating scripts shall be non-free software on this list? It was not me for sure, I said they shall be packaged, which means become package in distribution.
