I think that your confusion is with copyright and copyleft work and how
licenses apply to software. You seem to be under the impression that the
license applies to only binaries, but it applies to the source code. Having
access to the source code does not allow you to use, modify, or
The down and dirty explanation for my nine year old, as far as reverse
engineering Minetest texture packs and other little kid stuff, is that if you
don't see the GPL, it's proprietary so hands off.
Of course I have a deeper understanding when I've had my coffee. ;)
There are other
I of course know how a free and copyleft license works, our GPL is notable
one, you are licensed which you must fully protect freedom and must restrict
nothing, must stand firm against every back-doors and every surveillances.
But I honestly dunno how free but permissive licenses (like BSD
Thank you.
I just can't bring myself to install Mint, but my peeps may well be a lot
more vulnerable than your peeps, ergo my (sometimes ever verging on
irrational) passion for Trisquello, despite my blase ho hum irreverent
attitude towards the achievements of the illustrious Senor
>I never particularly liked Linux Mint
As much as I'd dislike having in it on a computer that I own (not gonna
happen) even more so I like it installed on a mate's computer: it really is
the only distro my semi-illiterate mates NEVER have any issue, give credit
where it's due..
Hi gd_scandia,
I remember doing that. I never particularly liked Linux Mint, but I did a
bunch of small newbie friendly distros like Simply Mepis, LXLE, AntiX, etc.
on VMs whenever I got frustrated by all the trolls on the Trisquel boards my
first year or so in the community.
I guess it
"Suspectedly" is not a word, so that doesn't help at all. What do you mean by
"suspectedly written"?
> Of course you cant relicense their binaries, but if they are the sources?
No difference. It's still copyrighted. Copyright works on all works, not just
compiled binaries.
> unless this
That doesn't make sense to me either. What are you talking about?
"Licenses which are suspectedly written".
Of course you cant relicense their binaries, but if they are the sources?
Sources mean where you make a derivative, of course you are free to license
you this work under GPL, unless this is prohibited against the original
license.
"Taking denials against one" is antonym against "taking credits for him".
You can't relicense code you don't hold the copyright to.
What does "licenses suspectedly written to us" mean?
"freeware" and "free software" are not the same thing. "Freeware" typically
refers to software which is available at no charge.
I don't know what you mean by "take denials against Torvalds".
Do you mean that, nonfreeware packages those aren’t blobs should be mostly
‘‘nonfree’’ due to their licenses suspectedly written to us? If so we
should need to re-license these nonfreeware sources under GPL to be free
software?
You won't find a silver bullet that that magically removes all non-free
packages and leaves you with a working system. Even if you used deblob-check
to test all source code for blobs and found that everything flagged is either
unnecessary or can be rebuilt with the blobs removed, you would
vrms doesn't work on Linux Mint. Mint uses its own packages which are jumbled
in sections with no regard to whether they're libre or not, and those
sections are what vrms depends on to work.
The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a
Debian system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree (and,
optionally, from contrib) which are currently installed.
The vrms package is however somewhat misleading since its name suggests it
has to do
Hi gd_scania,
FYI, vrms follows Debian's definitions of free software rather than that of
the GNU project.[1]
Richard M Stallman ** DOES NOT ** agree with many of the views expressed by
the program's output. Free Software Foundation lists vrms among packages that
don't respect its Free
hd-sca...@users.sf.net, [15.10.17 14:12]
[Forwarded from hd-sca...@users.sf.net]
hd_scania@hardened ~ $ aptitude search vrms
p vrms
- virtual Richard M. Stallman
hd_scania@hardened ~ $ sudo apt install -y
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