Re: [debian-knoppix] Unfreie Pakete
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:24:18PM +0100, Michael Kleinhenz wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> > > We (Intevation) startet an effort to do this
> > > and have a version and a set of instructions on how do to this.
> > > It is not perfect yet, but a good start:
>
> Um die Geruechte um Frotz mal aus der Welt zu schaffen, hier eine
> Analyse fuer diejenigen die lieber behaupten anstatt nachzupruefen:
Hört, hört. Das kann man aber auch ein bisschen netter sagen, Michael.
;-)
One big problem with free/non-free is that there is no non-costly way
to have absolute clarification about the status of software.
There may be hidden proprietary issues (firmware stored as hexdump, for
example), unclear licenses, license-compatibility issues, and personal
preferences of the package maintainers who are more or less "literal"
when they interpret a license. With strict and literal interpretation,
the GPL does not even qualify as an OpenSource license as defined
on http://www.opensource.org/, but I don't want to raise more
controversial issues here, so please ignore my last statement. ;-)
Therefore, Bernhards list is as accurate as it could be without any
thorough research. Since it was published, there is now a possibility to
add comments or point out changes in the license schemes. Which is what
is now apparently happening.
Thanks for your clarification about frotz, I believe that Bernhard will
remove it from the list of "non-free" programs if he can verify your
statements.
> Also Ruhe ist jetzt!
Genau. :-)
Regards
-Klaus
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