Contacting copyright holder and asking them to release under GPL or such is not a bad idea. even if they say no they might consider it in the future.
They will know there is a real use for it. Else people just buy free-software complying hardware, or better alternative software that is fully free software. Doing nonfree is getting a worse and worse business these days. Many people have begun to use Ubuntu i.e., so the more market share that is taken from MS/apple etc. the more the need for releasing free software becomes Not sure if ubuntu accepts non-free though in their non-free repository (isn't that a bit too easy to use?)... They should make it harder to enable that.. Non-free can be enabled from the GUI it seems.. The problem is non-free sets the whole free software development back quite a bit.. > On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the best practice way of doing > > > this. > > > > Best practice would be to contact the copyright holder and ask them to > > convert the software to FLOSS. If they refuse to do so, then try to > > find, write or convince someone to write an alternative. If all of > > that fails and you still need the proprietary spftware, install it > > locally and you are done. > > > > -- > > bye, > > pabs > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: > > https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6F5jXM-gGVTqyiy=qjamxn_mbebx7mkxdc2l1vn7at...@mail.gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141008235131.ga...@rlogin.dk
