0.3% non-free software on my computer
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Reading Marius’s blog I have found vrms (”virtual Richard M. Stallman” for Debian GNU/Linux.)
Running vrms on my computer (the one I use for development and all day usage ) it shows I’m using 0.3% non-free software.
I have an Ati Radeon x300 video adapter, and i”m running the open source driver, since Ati no longer support this card on linux.
$ vrms
Non-free packages installed on adi-laptoplinux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script
linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
tangerine-icon-theme Tangerine Icon theme
unrar Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)5 non-free packages, 0.3% of 1695 installed packages.
It looks like the licence of tangerine project in LP is not specified, but the initial branch import by Daniel Holbach is CC-BY-SA.
Also the firmware from my Intel wifi adapter is not free software and I need unrar (non-free) when dealing with various rar achives.
I’m looking forward seeing tangerine part of the free software world, and unrar-free with support for rar 2.0 features.
No hope for Intel wifi firmware (as free software firmware are not FCC friendly), and same for BIOS, HDD firmware , etc.
Overall, I think this is a pretty free computer.
September 10th, 2009 at 17:21
we are talking about the same thing in my blog
September 10th, 2009 at 17:30
“It looks like the licence of tangerine is not specified.”
Will you report this to Ubuntu as a bug?
September 10th, 2009 at 17:46
@nizarus, yep. I didn’t saw your post. Nice work!
Well, the tangerine branch used in Ubuntu is CC-BY-SA and the licence is distributed in the source code. Is just that the LP project does not mention the licence.
September 10th, 2009 at 18:08
The reason for tangerine being listed as non-free may be that CC-BY-SA 2.5 is regarded as non-free in Debian and only version 3 is considered free.
September 12th, 2009 at 23:14
I create alot of themes for GTK (in different names as i cant remember passwords) but they are listed as non-free even though ive tried to make them free.. as i license them under “do WTF you ever wanna do with them.” any suggestion how to fix this.