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[gNewSense-users] Freedom verification (checking packages)
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Andrew Wigglesworth |
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[gNewSense-users] Freedom verification (checking packages) |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:08:54 +0000 |
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Hi everyone,
We've had a lot of interesting conversation about the freedom of gNewSense.
General stuff around the need for freedom and that not everything may be free
in gNewSense.
The possibility of non-free packages in gNewSense is bug number 1 in the bug
tracker:
http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00001
We now need people to start "stepping up to the plate". ie. start organising
and doing this in a public way.
The repositories are already split up alphabetically. My proposal is that
people take personal responsibility for parts of the repository and start
working on them.
ie. someone will take a letter of the alphabet and take responsibility for
checking all those packages.
The creation of a new "freedom verification" section on the website where
people can volunteer to take up a responsibility and then record their
progress in the wiki.
This needs to be a public process. ie. "J.Bloggs is responsible for verifying
all packages under the letter T and this is the page on the wiki where you
can see her progress".
If people are already doing his work, then I apologise, but if this is not
organised in an public/open way then we will continue in going round in
circles on this issue
Soooo, after all that, here's my personal "stepping up to the plate".
If people think this proposal is a good idea; I will pledge to work my way
through the letter "a" packages and verify their freedom.
Now, that's quite a few packages, and I'm not 100% sure how to go about this
verification. Give me a break, I'm a musician not a computer programmer!
A good starting point, I think, would be for me to look at each of the tar.gz
original sources that are in the gNewSense repositories and check the licence
details. Would a search in the Debian bug tracker be a good idea as well?
--
Andrew
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