I understand your comments re: certain type of Ubuntu software. Ubuntu
is also worried about providing restricted software and its legal
problems for a deep pocket. My comment is in regards to the bandwidth
consumption re: different tweaks of the license. Just keep the squeaky
clean stuff in the main install program, and reference the rest in a
separate .zip with the appropriate caveats.
John
On 05/16/2016 06:31 PM, dmccunney wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:44 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote:
Excuse me for butting in ... but,
I understand the the FreeDOS package should be pure open source with no
caveats. I also see that there are many programs out there that are
'available for use by the general public', but have varying license tweaks
that make them not pure open source. Some of these programs have been in
use long before we got picky about the term 'open source'. Ubuntu seems to
have solved this by treating them separately, not part of the install.
Couldn't the same be done here? If any author or troll (strike that -
license holder) complains, their program could be removed from the separate
.ZIP.
Possibility?
Ubuntu draws a distinction between "free" and "non-free" software, and
the distinction I know is whether source is available.
The non-free stuff tends to be things like drivers. For instance,
AMD/ATI and Nvidia both offer Linux drivers for their video cards, but
do *not* provide driver source. You use them if you have special
needs the generic open source video drivers bundled with Ubuntu don't
handle. (You are likely a gamer if you have needs like that.)
I have an older AMD/ATI card in my dual boot desktop. It has a
current ATI driver on the Windows side, but uses the generic Linux
drivers under Ubuntu.
(On an older machine, I did once resort to ndiswrapper, a *nix utility
that let me use Windows drivers in Linux, to get full support for the
hardware on the machine Linux was multi-booting on.)
John
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