Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

2012-02-07 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 06 Feb 2012, at 20:55, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Monday, 6. February 2012 15.47:00 Jonas Maebe wrote: - freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics See http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=20200 for the full story (it's less spectacular than that

[fpc-pascal] Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

2012-02-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I just read this story about Parabola (yet another linux distro). It believes that everything must be free and open source. Thus no binary ATI or nVidia drivers, no JDK, no Flash, on MP3 support etc etc... The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very strangely, Free Pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

2012-02-06 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 06 Feb 2012, at 15:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very strangely, Free Pascal is in that list? http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt - freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics See

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

2012-02-06 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Monday, 6. February 2012 15.47:00 Jonas Maebe wrote: - freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics See http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=20200 for the full story (it's less spectacular than that message may suggest at first sight). It has been

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 06 Feb 2012, at 15:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very strangely, Free Pascal is in that list? http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt - freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics See