On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Mike Viau wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:50:07 -0400 <kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I ran this command on my laptop, and the returned list includes:
> >
> > gdb-doc - The GNU Debugger Documentation
> >
> > ?Why the hell is gdb-doc not free?
> 
> 
> I was wondering the same thing about the gcc-doc package.
> 
> 
> >
> > >On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:36, Andrei Popescu  wrote:
> > > On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:09:56, Klistvud wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Seems a quite reasonable policy to me. Of course, we all wish we
> > >> could run free software ponly on our machines, but the time doesn't
> > >> seem ripe for that.
> > >
> > > But we are getting closer every year:
> > >
> > > $ aptitude search '~s"non-free|contrib"~i!~M'
> > > i   firmware-iwlwifi                - Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 
> > > 3945, 4
> > > i   flashplugin-nonfree             - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
> > > i   nvidia-glx                      - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
> > > i   nvidia-settings                 - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA 
> > > graphics d
> > > i   opera                           - A fast and secure web browser and 
> > > Internet
> > > i   skype                           - Skype
> > > i   sun-java6-plugin                - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
> > > i   unrar                           - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free 
> > > versio
> > >
> > > of these I could get rid of Opera anytime (I don't actually use it, but
> > > I test it from time to time) and probably the Java plugin (I don't even
> > > recall why it's installed).
> > >
> > > There is work in progress for replacements for the nvidia driver and the
> > > flash plugin (but still not entirely there).
> > >
> > > firmware-iwlwifi will be tough, because Intel claims it has to do with
> > > (FCC?) compliance and unrar because it's still quite widespread (but
> > > actually useless for compressed movies and mp3s, so it's more of a user
> > > education thing).
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andrei
> > > --
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> > >
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GFDL and non-invariant sections, perhaps?

AndyC


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