Re: [directory-discuss] GNU Radio situation

[Ian Kelling]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017, at 01:04 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> 
> I see there is a discussion about supposed nonfree documentation in
> GNU Radio.  But the messages didn't discuss the _facts_ of the case.
> I need to know them.
> 
> Could soeone please tell me:
> 
> * What documentation (related to GNU Radio) is nonfree?
> 
> * What topic does it cover?
> 
> * What is its licensing?
> 
> * How is it related to GNU Radio?
> (Is it included in the GNU Radio tarball?
> Is it in the GNU Radio repository?)
> 
> Each question can be answered in 2 lines.
> 
> Would someone please tell me the answers?
> 
> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
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> 

The main documentation is included in the tarball and the website, it's
gplv3+.

To understand the alleged problem, The gnuradio.org website gets hosted
by cloudflare, which has been known to present a captcha on the first
page load when using tor, which makes the site harder to use and
unusable with cli tools. However gnuradio.org seems to have this setting
turned off. Furthermore, captchas would not make the content be nonfree.

related links:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor-
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare.

--
Ian Kelling