I was just over at gnu.org to download the anniversary video recorded
by Stephen Fry, and while I was there decided to take a look at what
systems they recommend as being free.
They list BLAG, which is based on Fedora. But Fedora itself (and
Debian) is not there!
http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
This struck me as rather strange, especially considering their
guidelines are actually based on Fedora's (and we are thanked for it):
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
As far as I remember, Rahul Sundaram was talking to the GNU / FSF
people about this quite a while back. Is it just the difference over
binary-only firmware that's consigning us to the "non-free" heap?
Regards,
--
Michel Salim
http://hircus.jaiku.com/
There is an application that I would like to package for Fedora called
binclock, but I am having issues getting clarity on the license. Sourceforge
lists it under the GPL on the project page, but the source code does not
specify what version. I attempted to email the author but it appears his
email address has changed as my email was returned by the mail server saying
that the domain was invalid.
The application source file from the author has a debian packaging directory
that lists it as GPLv2 but since that is not specified in the source I
wasn't sure if it was definitive enough.
A copy of the source code is located here:
http://maxamillion.fedorapeople.org/binclock_0.3.2-1.tar.gz
And the source forge project page is located here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/binclock/
Thank you very much in advance for your input on the situation.
-Adam
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