On Wednesday 06 May 2009 18:35:26 Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > whether it's free or non-free. Do you mind filing an enhancement > > request? > I am happy to do this if you don't want to Attila.
Already did :) https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4477 , feel free to correct/comment. > The distinction between free and non-free has to be made clear to the > end user so they have the necessary information to decide what they > want to download. Right now, it is unclear. I agree (I personally think that the small gray note on maemo.org isn't nearly enough). Also, it's not just about license pragmatism (which is every distribution/community's own choice). If non-free (=closed) means binary blobs in extras as hinted in another QA thread, I do think it's important even for license-agnostic users - you might be executing non-reviewable code on your device from an almost completely anonymous source (potentially with root privileges). That's something IMO they could/should be (made) aware of, even if they don't care about software freedoms or open source in general.
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