[maemo-developers] Double checking free/nonfree packages

[From: Carsten Valdemar Munk]

Quoting Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber at dustycloud.org>:

> While researching this list, I found some components that are currently
> marked as nonfree here:
>
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Architecture/Top_Level_Architecture
>
> ... but which now appear to be free software.

For good measure, that diagram is inaccurate :)

>
> I've compiled a list of those components as well as some notes on them.
> I'd like to get some confirmation before I take them off the nonfree
> list:

Did you in your research run into Mer, btw? http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer  
- we strive towards having a 100% OSS platform on the software side  
(our views probably differ on the HW support side but so it goes)

>
>
> <questionably-nonfree-list>
>
> Calendar-backend
> ----------------
>
> Appears to be a free version of this at:
> http://maemo.gitorious.org/calendar-backend
>
>
> Gypsy daemon
> ------------
>
> Appears free to me: http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/wiki/
>
>
> Mission control
> ---------------
>
> Marked as nonfree on the graph, however irc conversation reveals:
>
> <wjt> paroneayea: MC itself is LGPL  [15:13]
> <wjt> paroneayea: Maemo uses osso-mission-control, which is upstream MC plus
>       some proprietary bits
>
> Any details on what these proprietary bits are, how they can be removed?
>
>
> rtcom-eventlogger
> -----------------
>
> Apparently recently freed according to:
>
> http://cool900.blogspot.com/2009/11/closed-source-components-in-maemo-5.html
>
Yes, see http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/free/r/

>
> Funambol SyncML
> ---------------
>
> Claims "Funambol is the leading mobile open source project and leading
> provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions
> of phones."
>
> https://www.forge.funambol.org/DomainHome.html
>
> If it's "open source", is it really nonfree then?
>
> Appears to be under the AGPL?
> https://core.forge.funambol.org/source/browse/core/trunk/LICENSE.txt?revision=28308&view=markup
>
Dual-licensed, I think nokia has the commercial version
>
> xml2wbxml
> ---------
>
> Appears to be linked to the wbxmllib project, which is under the gpl?
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wbxmllib/develop
>
>
> CertMan
> -------
> Appears to be free or have a free implementation?
> http://gitorious.org/+mer/mer/certman
That's an old version. New one is  
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/free/m/maemo-security-certman/ I  
think.
>
>
> OpenGL ES 2.0
> -------------
>
>
> Okay, this one is probably certainly non-free on the driver end
Situation is open source kernel driver, closed source libraries.  
http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/sgx.asp
>
>
> DSME
> ----
>
> Freed according to:
> http://cool900.blogspot.com/2009/11/closed-source-components-in-maemo-5.htmlci
> (2009-11-13: DSME is in free).
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/free/d/dsme/

>
>
> </questionably-nonfree-list>
>
>