Summary

Not all software is Free

Type

Bug

Category

General

Raised by

bbrazil

Date opened

2006–08–13

Description

Some software has been made available that does not allow it to be used in the best possible way. In particular freedom for users to:

1. Run it for any purpose;
2. Study how it works & adapt it to their needs;
3. Redistribute copies, and
4. Improve it & release their improvements to the public

Status

Open

Importance

2

Target Release

none

Resolution

Date closed

Comments

Would it be possible to have an approximate progress report on where you stand in removing unfree stuff?

I would like to move to gnewsense, exclusively based on freedom issues with my current distribution.

chris_debian (29 Aug 07):

Regarding this comment, see:

http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/PackagesInMain

Can we make this bug more specific? For example, do we mean software in gNS MAIN, or UNIVERSE, or perhaps all known software? If we do this, we can have a better shot at closing it.

Thanks,

Chris_debian

It referes to all software. karl.

Really? All gNS software, or ALL software? Is getting M$ to open Vista either wanted or likely?

Thanks,

Chris_debian

It refers to all software in the world. If you believe that freedom is a good goal, then striving for perfection on this front is the highest goal. Sure, it may never be 100% achieved, but we have achieved so much by dreaming big, why stop? - Edward

The use of Mono and C# is not in the spirit of a 100% free distribution. Stallman, on the FSF website, rightly said that free software shouldn’t depend on Mono or C# (26/06/2009). I fully agree with him and don’t understand why GNewSense includes programs in Mono, like Tomboy, that can easily be replaced by something else. - Sultan Rahi

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