Re: [gNewSense-users] freeness sanity check

[Karl Goetz]

Francesco Tapparo wrote:
> first let me give you a warm hi from Italy.

gday

 My name's Francesco and I've
> installed gnewsense just yesterday. I'm not a good coder and I've only 
> some experience as debian maintainer years ago, but I'd like to help.
> I've read in the website that doing a freeness sanity check for the 
> packages in the distribution could be useful. 

It would certainly be good to know.

If this is true I'd be
> available to start checking the source. A possibility is to check the 
> debian bug tracking system for bugs related to DFSG guidelines: it would 
> not give us guarantee that we discovered all the possible freeness 
> violations but it would be faster than scanning all the packages.

A good start!. i'v seen numerous arguments on debian lists about 
suspected non-free files in packages.

I
> could write a wiki page or even a simple text list with the packages 
> where an effective DFSG violation exists and notify the list about them 
> so that we can decide what to do.

A wiki page would be good, as long as it had a good structure to it. 
there's a lot of packages, so I'm not sure how easy it would be to make 
such a page... if you have any thoughts I'd be interested in hearing :)

> What do you think about it?

Its great someone has the go to make it start happening.
> Francesco
I've been eyeing this off as a way of contributing, so i'll lend a hand 
where needed.


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