This was discussed almost immediately after the announcement of Gobuntu. Truth be told, there's a lot of overlap between the projects.
The problem is: Gobuntu hasn't publically announced what they consider to be Free Software. They claim to use the Free Software Definition, but TECHNICALLY Ubuntu "proper" is FSF Free already, since they don't consider binary blobs to be show stoppers and they don't demand Free Art and the like. Exactly what it means to be Gobuntu Free isn't yet decided and with that up in the air, it's hard to verify if things meet those criteria. That said, Gobuntu is aware of the gNewSense project. Because gNS uses Dapper and they're working on Gutsy, co-operation is helpful but at the same time useless since licenses change version to version and any information we have no may be wrong in Gutsy and to be SURE every package requires manual rechecking anyway. On 10/12/07, Peter Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order for Gobuntu to be what it says it is, someone must be working > on freedom verification. Is there a team working on the Gobuntu > distribution doing this? If so, are we duplicating efforts? If not, is > the Gobuntu folk aware of our work? If not, they should be and they > should borrow what we have done. > > Sorry if these are naive questions...I haven't been following this closely. > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
