I never said that the GPL was non-free. Please don't put words in my mouth.
I compared HandBrake with Linux-Libre, which are licensed under GPLv2.
Therefore calling HandBrake non-free can be applied to Linux-Libre too. The
problem with HandBrake is in providing a static executable, rather
Therefore, using terms like not completely freedom respecting, or
partially free software is more appropriate here.
Yep, and I no longer use terms like calling a program semifree:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#ProprietarySoftware
One important thing I forgot to add is that, from my experience, there are
two main categories of partially free software:
one that can be liberated, and
one that cannot be
The first category make use of parts, that can be cut out without seriously
affecting the program functionality (e.g.
The key factor here is the dfsg in the package name. That represents changes
being made, by the debian packager to remove the non-free elements, to make
it Debian Free Software Guidlines acceptable. Reading the changelog we can
see the non-free stuff is being removed.
NO comment on the
Calling a GPLv2 licensed software non-free means, that you does not know how
to differentiate free software from non-free. You can read the full GPLv2
license to better understand, how it protects the software/user. Also, take a
look at the list of FSF approved free software licenses. If you
Le 2014-01-02 23:05, ja...@bluehome.net a écrit :
It's probably not a good idea to provide builds of non-free software,
let alone advertising it here. (HandBrake uses the faac encoder, which
is not free.)
It would be good to determine and clarify if the Ubuntu and Debian
builds being
Calling a GPLv2 licensed software non-free means, that you does not know how
to differentiate free software from non-free. You can read the full GPLv2
license to better understand, how it protects the software/user. Also, take a
look at the list of FSF approved free software licenses. If you
Frankly, I wasn't aware about any of your work outside Linux-libre, which is
licensed under GPLv2 too, therefore calling such software non-free was quite
unexpected from you. I thought that the reason to rebuild HandBrake from
source, while there is an official Launchpad PPA for it that does
Frankly, I wasn't aware about any of your work outside Linux-libre, which is
licensed under GPLv2 too, therefore calling such software non-free was quite
unexpected from you.
I never said that the GPL was non-free. Please don't put words in my mouth.
In the case of Linux-libre there are no
For those missing Handbrake (a free software video transcoding tool) from
repo, I am now providing stable builds for both 32, and 64-bit edition of
Trisquel. I thought I would rather share this here, since the bug tracker
does not bring up closed issues by default.
This is wonderful! Many thanks indeed :)
It's probably not a good idea to provide builds of non-free software, let
alone advertising it here. (HandBrake uses the faac encoder, which is not
free.)
This was my initial concern as well but if I'm reading the trisquel bug and
this changelog right, the upstream removed faac.
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/h/handbrake/handbrake_0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9/changelog
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