Wolfgang Wiedmeyer writes:
> The CyanogenMod website and other resources are not available anymore,
> so link to Wikipedia in the history section.
>
> The statement about OmniROM being more friendly towards free software
> needs to be weakened because there doesn't seem to be much difference
> now anymore, given that LineageOS removed dependencies on the proprietary
> Google Play library.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wiedmeyer
> ---
> about.php | 20 ++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/about.php b/about.php
> index 94d0f86..a444633 100644
> --- a/about.php
> +++ b/about.php
> @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
> About Replicant
>
>
> - Replicant is a href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">fully free href="//www.android.com/">Android distribution running on several
> devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on
> freedom and privacy/security. It is based on href="//www.cyanogenmod.org/">CyanogenMod and replaces or avoids every href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html">proprietary component of
> the system, such as user-space programs and libraries as well as
> firmwares.Replicant aims to be an ethical system: it does not ship nor
> recommend the use of non-free software.
> + Replicant is a href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">fully free href="//www.android.com/">Android distribution running on several
> devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on
> freedom and privacy/security. It is based on href="//http://lineageos.org//";>LineageOS and replaces or avoids every href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html">proprietary component of
> the system, such as user-space programs and libraries as well as
> firmwares.Replicant aims to be an ethical system: it does not ship nor
> recommend the use of non-free software.
I messed up the LineageOS link here. I fixed this already on my
replicant-6.0 branch[1]. I can also send this fix as part of a v2.
Best regards,
Wolfgang
[1] https://code.fossencdi.org/replicant_website.git/log/?h=replicant-6.0
> Many different devices are supported by Replicant,
> to an extent specific to each device. Basic features such as graphics, sound
> and telephony (if applicable) are supposed to be working for each device (if
> not, developers are confident they will work soon).
> Replicant is a community-led effort, currently
> driven by a single developer. Not every piece of software in Replicant should
> be expected to be fully-featured nor entirely reliable, even though
> developers are trying their best.
> History
> - Replicant was founded in 2010 as a way to gather
> initiatives aiming to free the system running on the HTC Dream, the first
> publicly-available Android device. The project was started by members of href="//libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Italia">LibrePlanet Italia
> and Software Freedom Conservancy. The
> first usable version of Replicant was based upon Android 1.5 as released by
> the Android Open Source Project: after
> some work, basic functionalities of the HTC Dream were working. Starting
> from version 2.2, Replicant stopped using AOSP as a base and instead started
> using CyanogenMod, which contains support for more devices.
> + Replicant was founded in 2010 as a way to gather
> initiatives aiming to free the system running on the HTC Dream, the first
> publicly-available Android device. The project was started by members of href="//libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Italia">LibrePlanet Italia
> and Software Freedom Conservancy. The
> first usable version of Replicant was based upon Android 1.5 as released by
> the Android Open Source Project: after
> some work, basic functionalities of the HTC Dream were working. Starting
> from version 2.2, Replicant stopped using AOSP as a base and instead started
> using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanogenmod";>CyanogenMod,
> which contains support for more devices.
> Over time, various initial members of the project
> retired, leaving Denis "GNUtoo" Carikli as the only active developer of the
> project. However, in April 2011 Paul Kocialkowski, a user of Replicant,
> started getting involved in development. After porting Replicant to version
> 2.3 on the Nexus S and later on porting plenty more devices, Paul became the
> main developer of Replicant and is currently doing most of the work on the
> project.
>
>
> @@ -34,15 +34,15 @@
>
>id="missing-hardware-features">
>class="panel-title">Why are some hardware features missing on
> Replicant?
> - Most of the time,
> hardware features are driven by proprietary software
