[gNewSense-users] Re: Recomended Free Software [WAS]: Sonngbird freedom

[Eric Morey]

Just to be perfectly clear...


On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 20:24 -0800, Jason Self wrote:
> Not including or recommending non-free software is one of their
> requirements for a free software distro, 
> 
That software does not recommend using other non-free software is one
of the FSF's requirements for recommending free software. RMS has
indicated that there is a lot of free software that he will not
recommend because of this. For example, OpenBSD. 

> 
> and seems to be one of the
> reasons that Icecat was created as a completely ethical alternative to
> Firefox.
> 
Icecat was created because Firefox recommends the installation of
non-free software like Flash. It was re-branded because Mozilla doesn't
give permission to use it's trademarks without oversight of the code
that uses them.

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