Hi, ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Hello, > > I'm compiling a list on the Libre Planet wiki to determine what packages > are nonfree, and what steps would need to be taken to make the n900 a > fully free phone: > > http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/FreeMaemo
Thank you! This is a nice first shot. Can it be that we start having several iniciatives like this spread in different places? At the end the goal is the same: Maemo as open as technically possible being still stable and full featured. It would be really useful to have the one and only list of closed components prioritized by community interest. An openness backlog for people like me to work on. The criteria to prioritize components could be (improvising a bit, feel free to suggest improvements): 1. Fixing a bug. I mean a real objective bug: package is in non-free although it looks like it's actually an open piece of software. 2. Nurturing application development. There is a strong argument proving that opening a component will bring more and better apps for end users. 3. Spread of Maemo driven technologies to other platforms. A component fits well in a gap existing in other Linux/OSS based projects and there is a concrete interest on collaborating and contributing to a component if it's opened. 4. Community maintenance. A component is receiving low attention from the official maintainers even if it has high attention from the community and there are developers volunteering to contribute to it if the source code is available. 5. Better architecture. Probably covered by 2 or 3 but just in case. A closed component is sitting in the midle of open components making things more difficult that needed to developers interested in that area. > > While researching this list, I found some components that are currently > marked as nonfree here: > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Architecture/Top_Level_Architecture Soumya and Carsten (CCed) should be able to help with the packages info. > ... but which now appear to be free software. > > I've compiled a list of those components as well as some notes on them. > I'd like to get some confirmation before I take them off the nonfree > list: > > > <questionably-nonfree-list> > > Calendar-backend > ---------------- > > Appears to be a free version of this at: > http://maemo.gitorious.org/calendar-backend > > > Gypsy daemon > ------------ > > Appears free to me: http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > > > Mission control > --------------- > > Marked as nonfree on the graph, however irc conversation reveals: > > <wjt> paroneayea: MC itself is LGPL [15:13] > <wjt> paroneayea: Maemo uses osso-mission-control, which is upstream MC plus > some proprietary bits > > Any details on what these proprietary bits are, how they can be removed? > > > rtcom-eventlogger > ----------------- > > Apparently recently freed according to: > > http://cool900.blogspot.com/2009/11/closed-source-components-in-maemo-5.html > > > Funambol SyncML > --------------- > > Claims "Funambol is the leading mobile open source project and leading > provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions > of phones." > > https://www.forge.funambol.org/DomainHome.html > > If it's "open source", is it really nonfree then? > > Appears to be under the AGPL? > https://core.forge.funambol.org/source/browse/core/trunk/LICENSE.txt?revision=28308&view=markup For what I remember, Funambol has dual licensing and we had to take the commercial version. > > > xml2wbxml > --------- > > Appears to be linked to the wbxmllib project, which is under the gpl? > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wbxmllib/develop > > > CertMan > ------- > > Appears to be free or have a free implementation? > http://gitorious.org/+mer/mer/certman > > > OpenGL ES 2.0 > ------------- > > Can't seem to find out details about this package > > There appear to be some free software implementation tests here, but > not really usable?: > http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/opengles/ > > Vincent 3d is a free software implementation? > http://www.vincent3d.com/Vincent3D/index.html > > Hm, looks like the problem may be on the driver end: > http://forum.openhandhelds.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=341 > > And it does not look likely that this is free or that it will be free > soon. > > Okay, this one is probably certainly non-free on the driver end Indeed. > > DSME > ---- > > Freed according to: > http://cool900.blogspot.com/2009/11/closed-source-components-in-maemo-5.htmlci > (2009-11-13: DSME is in free). > > > </questionably-nonfree-list> > > > Any notes on this would be really appreciated, and would certainly help > me improve documentation over here :) > > Also, does anyone have an original SVG for "Top_level_architecture.png"? > If some of these components have been freed, I'd like to make their > lettering black. Otherwise else I'm going to be forced to resort to > pasting smiley faces next to the components that have been freed. There is no problem having the source file public, but the good solution is to simply update the source image and link to it instead of forking it. Otherwise the chances of you having a version different to the one in the official documentation is high, when there should not be any reason to show anything different. -- Quim Gil open source advocate Maemo Devices @ Nokia _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
