<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 06 May 2009 18:35:26 Jeremiah Foster wrote:<br>
> > whether it's free or non-free. Do you mind filing an enhancement<br>
> > request?<br>
> I am happy to do this if you don't want to Attila.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Already did :) https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4477 , feel free to correct/comment.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> The distinction between free and non-free has to be made clear to the<br>
> end user so they have the necessary information to decide what they<br>
> want to download. Right now, it is unclear.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I agree (I personally think that the small gray note on maemo.org isn't nearly enough).<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Also, it's not just about license pragmatism (which is every distribution/community's own choice). If non-free (=closed) means binary blobs in extras as hinted in another QA thread, I do think it's important even for license-agnostic users - you might be executing non-reviewable code on your device from an almost completely anonymous source (potentially with root privileges). That's something IMO they could/should be (made) aware of, even if they don't care about software freedoms or open source in general.<br>
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