Michael J. Flickinger mjfl...@gnu.org writes:
On 12/24/11 6:46 PM, Tomasz Konojacki wrote:
Provided Savannah's maintainers have the capacity, projects running on
Replicant may be hosted on Savannah. Projects having dependencies on
non-free software, such as proprietary software drivers or
non-free software, such as proprietary software drivers or AndroidOS,
are not permissible.
Shouldn't there be for instead of or?
Drivers and the kernel are two different things. At least conceptually.
On 12/24/11 6:46 PM, Tomasz Konojacki wrote:
Provided Savannah's maintainers have the capacity, projects running on
Replicant may be hosted on Savannah. Projects having dependencies on
non-free software, such as proprietary software drivers or AndroidOS,
are not permissible.
Shouldn't there be
Do we have enough personnel and machine capacity on Savannah to
handle all the projects that want hosting and DO run on GNU?
Magiadni would be more worthy of support if it will condemn the DNI
as a form of tyranny.
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President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
Here is the project description, from https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?11659:
Magiadni is an Android application that uses the device's camera to
read OCR data on Spanish identity cards, then calculates its check
digit and displays it.
This may
Do we have enough personnel and machine capacity on Savannah to
handle all the projects that want hosting and DO run on GNU?
In practice, yes.
In that case, we can also host packages that run on Replicant.
But this one won't run on Replicant, because of the camera problem,
On 12/22/11 10:59 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Do we have enough personnel and machine capacity on Savannah to
handle all the projects that want hosting and DO run on GNU?
In practice, yes.
In that case, we can also host packages that run on Replicant.
But this one won't
On 20/12/11 22:20, Richard Stallman wrote:
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU Savannah?.
Can they run usefully on the GNU system? If not, they should not be
in Savannah.
I don't know the answer to that question. Andriod's API is quite
different from the GNU system,
On 21 December 2011 10:34, Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org wrote:
On the other hand, rms's essay
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html) concludes
Android remains effectively nonfree. Which implies we shouldn't do any
hosting.
That essay covers a lot of ground, and
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU Savannah?.
Can they run usefully on the GNU system?
So it's not enough if it runs on Replicant?
If they could run usefully on GNU if GNU is running on a phone or
tablet, that makes them ok, even if they would not be
Hi!
Good question, I was wondering about it too. In my opinion, if Android is free
software (its
source code is publicly released under free license) we should allow projects
that are
depending on it. Of course, I'm not most competent person on earth to speak on
this topic. I
would be happy
By the way, is it allowed to depend on a gratis web service which is
not Free software, such as the Google Maps API? I know the issue has
come up before but I don't quite remember how it was solved.
This is Karl's response to this issue:
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By the way, is it allowed to depend on a gratis web service which is
not Free software, such as the Google Maps API?
I think there is a big difference between Flash and the Google Maps API.
Flash is a format and free software can deal with it. There is nothing
free about gmaps, it's
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU
Savannah?. Currently there is https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?11659
I am not sure. On the one hand, fsf.org has a page about free software
on Android:
http://www.fsf.org/working-together/next-steps/free-software-for-android.
That
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Tomasz Konojacki x...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
By the way, is it allowed to depend on a gratis web service which is
not Free software, such as the Google Maps API? I know the issue has
come up before but I don't quite remember how it was solved.
This is Karl's
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Tomasz Konojacki x...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
Good question, I was wondering about it too. In my opinion, if Android is
free software (its
source code is publicly released under free license) we should allow projects
that are
depending on it. Of course, I'm
On 12/20/11 6:34 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU
Savannah?. Currently there is https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?11659
I am not sure. On the one hand, fsf.org has a page about free software
on Android:
Alex Fernandez alejandro...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Tomasz Konojacki x...@poczta.onet.pl
wrote:
Good question, I was wondering about it too. In my opinion, if Android is
free software (its
source code is publicly released under free license) we should allow
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU
Savannah?. Currently there is https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?11659
I am not sure. On the one hand, fsf.org has a page about free software
on Android:
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU Savannah?.
Can they run usefully on the GNU system? If not, they should not be
in Savannah.
I don't know the answer to that question. Andriod's API is quite
different from the GNU system, but there might be an emulation layer
allowing
The question is not whether Android requires aditional software to be
useful but whether it can be used with only free software, for otherwise
Android-specific projects can't run on a fully free enviroment which is
a requirement in GNU Savannah.
A simple approach might be to do what
Hello.
Should we accept software targeted for Android in GNU Savannah?.
Currently there is https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?11659 on the pending
projects queue. I have formerly approved similar projects (After asking
on savannah-hackers-public [1]) before Android and Users' Freedom was
published
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