Hello,
On the latest Linux Action Show [1], there was discussion about
freeing their title track and content of their show. I was going to
respond and suggest the right way to do this, but quickly found that
there is no clear answer (especially when it comes to Debian).
I've read up and found t
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i recently submitted a serious bug against foo2zjs because the package
provides a non-free firmware fetching script (called getweb) in main.
i believe this to be a serious bug for two reasons:
the first is that packages in main should not have any dependencies on
non-free software. however, debia
Marco d'Itri wrote:
No, it's a very different case since here we have a large free
self-contained free software program which works without any non-free
dependencies, whose package also contains an additional little script
which downloads and copies to an external device some file.
There is clea
i received the following message from the upstream author of foo2zjs.
it is his belief that much of the package should be non-free. see below.
Rick Richardson wrote:
> It is not the firmware only. It is also ICC/ICM Color Correction files.
> And PATENTS. Patents by IBM and ATT in the USA and
You are missing the point: some printers may or may not work, but the
program itself still has the same capabilities and is not influenced by
what getweb does.
that's why it is ok for most of the program to be in main. its just getweb
that depends on non-free data.
this could easily be remedi
and since getweb depends on non-free software and is a part of the
package, foo2zjs as a whole is considered to depend on non-free software.
No. getweb *downloads* and copies some non-free software, it does not
depend on it.
does getweb function correctly if the external files are unable to b
To use a rough analogy, compiz doesn't work on certain graphics cards
unless one uses the proprietary driver for that card, but that doesn't
in itself make compiz non-free.
right, but this situation is different. so lets assume that foo2zjs
is analogous to compiz and the printer firmware is a
Stephen Gran wrote:
does getweb function correctly if the external files are unable to be
downloaded?
That's not a very useful question - does a web browser function
'correctly' when it gets a 404? It depends entirely on what you mean by
correctly, and that starts to feel like there's no bri
You are missing the point: some printers may or may not work, but the
program itself still has the same capabilities and is not influenced by
what getweb does.
that's why it is ok for most of the program to be in main. its just getweb
that depends on non-free data.
No, it does not.
you missed
Hi,
I came across a curiosity while updating the wine package today. I
noticed that upstream wine generates one of their source files from
the contents of RFC3454 [0].
There is a tool (tools/make_unicode) that among other things downloads
the RFC from rfc-editor.org and generates nameprep.c. Th
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across a curiosity while updating the wine package today. I
> noticed that upstream wine generates one of their source files from
> the contents of RFC3454 [0].
>
> There is a tool (tools/make_unic
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