Hi, all. I'm guessing all the licences have been checked and that everyone is happy that we comply with the 4 Freedoms. I'm following the project with interest and wish it well.
Cheers, Chris. 2008/6/30 Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Holger/ all, > > When I say the hardware, I mean anything that is not software (without > getting in to the technicalities of the OSI stack). > > From my work with gNewsense, I can confirm that much free software > isn't quite as free as it thinks it is, with checks often finding > hidden restrictive clauses etc. > > As far as hardware goes, I just mean that whilst checking all other > licences, it would also be important to ensure everything else that is > meant to be free, would be free. > > When I co-ordinated this work at gNewsense, I created several tables, > that held data/ licence info. I then encouraged people to help check > the software. > > When questionable licences were found, the maintainer/ author was > contacted, or a solution expedited by other means. > > As a means of keeping tabs on things, I organised for statistics to be > automatically produced weekly, so we could see who was contributing > most (so they could receive praise), and also so that we could check > our progress towards 100% freedom. > > Hope that clarifies somewhat. > > Cheers, > > Chris. > > 2008/6/30 Holger Freyther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Monday 30 June 2008 12:56:40 Chris Andrew wrote: >> >>> I would in Openmoko's case see this as extending to the hardware platform, >>> also. >> >> What do you mean by extending this to the hardware platform? The distribution >> powering our devices? Or the hardware itself? >> >> >>> >>> 0) Is this the right place to mention this? >> >> When it comes to distro development, distro-devel would exist as well but >> this >> is a good choice as well. >> >> >>> >>> 1) Is Openmoko interested in being FSF compliant? >> >> I'm personally interested in offering a FSF compliant distribution for the >> freerunner. From my understanding we shouldn't be too far away. We have the >> tools to easily recreate the distribution, we require no firmware uploads >> from the host. The problematic things would probably be openssl and gstreamer >> plugins ugly. >> >> how would you want to proceed? >> z. >> >> > > > > -- > Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: > > http://www.getgnulinux.org/ > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/
