On Jun 20, 2012 8:50 PM, "Jason Self" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quiliro Ordóñez <[email protected]> wrote .. > > I have checked Webmin's license and > > > libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines > > I cannot find that it is non-free. > > Please don't think that's an exhaustive list of all non-free software in existence. > > > Is it OK to use > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.580_all.deb on > > Trisquel? > > I understand that you want to know if it's free software or not, and Webmin > appears to be under a permissive free software license [1], but please don't > think that you need anyone's permission ("Is it OK...") to install software on > your own machines. :)
Parabola has an automatic method for ensuring non free programs are not installed with its package manager (by checking against a community-maintained blacklist, the your-freedom package). Maybe something like this would be useful for Trisquel. > > [1] http://github.com/webmin/webmin/blob/master/LICENCE
