Hi ni nhar, Something akin to a non-free version of Replicant that supports recent phones already exists. Please take a look at the following projects: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ https://doc.e.foundation/devices/ https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
Things work the other away around compared to what you describe. LineageOs, which is Replicant's upstream, is non-free. Replicant documents which are the non-free components of LineageOs and removes/replaces them. Regards, David On 13/11/2019 22:20, ni nhar wrote: >> people that think that laptops made by Purism are >> fully free software which isn't the case. > > purism is not an adequate example. I believe purism intentionally have > misinformed people in order to have them think their products > run on free software. > > > > >> If people also think that >> Ubuntu, Mint or other similar GNU/Linux distributions are fully free, >> then we have some big issue. > > If you look at ubuntu.com do you see big letter warnings saying, if you > install ubuntu on your > computer then you will install non free software? It does not say nowhere. It > is > understandable if people do not get aware that if they install ubuntu then > they install > non free software. > >> fully free or not >> get blurred > > Not if you call the non free software version of replicant for repnonfree and > it gets its > own website, repnonfree.com, and its website has no connection to > replicant.us. On repnonfree.com it should > warn, repnonfree contains non free software. And the website should list what > pieces > of non free software a given repnonfree phone contains. The website should > tell people that repnonfree is a derivative of replicant. Tell people what > are the implications > of running repnonfree instead of replicant on a phone. > >> The other issue is that to get something fully free you often need to >> have intermediate steps where you free hardware step by step. > > About repnonfree you do not want fully free. You want a derivative > of replicant which can get installed on phones sold today. You > prioritize new phones over free software. I do not know how many replicant > phones > there are. I assume it is a small number. There are a number of people, I do > not > know how many, who have informed themselves to a level such that they resent > ios and android because they think it probably surveils them in an > unacceptable manner. But they > are not prepared to get a used phone in order to do something about it. For > them > repnonfree could be an option. > > I understand the replicant programmers who say, I am not going to make > anything non > free. But if some of you do not object providing a repnonfree version, then we > should select a phone, estimate what it would cost to make the software and > start > a crowd funding for a repnonfree version. > > _______________________________________________ > Replicant mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant > _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
