Re: [gNewSense-users] help with an article about gNS

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:48:36 +0100
Benedikt Ahrens <address@hidden> wrote:

> hello,
> 

Hi,

> i am writing an article about gnewsense for a german online magazine
> (http://www.freiesmagazin.de/). For this article i'd need some

Hope we can help you out.

> examples of non-free software, which is included in ubuntu and was
> removed when building gns. it would be very important for these
> examples to be well-documented, i.e. the non-freeness of this software
> should be easily verifiable - if not, i will not be able to mention
> the example in the article.

Many bugs in the gNewSense bug tracking system, and many bugs collected
by the gnewsense group in Launchpad, relate to freeness issues. If you
want, you can have a look there, and they should have a reasonable
amount of data.

http://bugs.gnewsense.org
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~gnewsense

> software which could be mentioned includes binary firmware and drivers
> in the ubuntu kernel.
> i would be very grateful if you could send me the name of some
> software, together with one or more links where to find the necessary
> information about the software.
> the more examples i can mention in this article, the better.

GLX for example, has only just become free software.
http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00103
kk

> 
> thanks in advance for your help,
> ben
> 
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