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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro
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Sam Geeraerts |
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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro |
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Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:27:53 +0200 |
Op Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:05:35 +0200
schreef address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès):
> The GNU Guix project [0] is about producing (1) a package manager for
> the GNU system, and (2) a distribution of the GNU system (currently on
> top of Linux-Libre). We would like the distribution to be officially
> recognized as an offspring of the fully free distro family. ;-)
Looks pretty cool.
> The distro obviously contains only free software, and it follows the
> FSF free system distribution guidelines [2]; it is not based on any
> existing distribution. Package contributors perform a license and
> copyright check on the packages they add. Package meta-data records
> the license of each package [3]; we do not keep track of copyright
> notices on a per-file basis like Debian’s copyright files do.
Note that some packages may contain non-free files (e.g. [a]),
regardless of the license of the whole. There are also freedom issues
that are unrelated to the license of the code, e.g. encouraging the use
of non-free software [b]. I see that your packaging guidelines mention
these issues, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
[a] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG#sharand
[b] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG#XChat
- [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/11
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro,
Sam Geeraerts <=
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Jason Self, 2013/09/11
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/12
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Jason Self, 2013/09/12
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/13
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Jason Self, 2013/09/13
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/14
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Sam Geeraerts, 2013/09/14
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/16
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Jason Self, 2013/09/16
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro, Karl Berry, 2013/09/16