On 08/05/11 06:23, Karl Goetz wrote: > On Sat, 07 May 2011 19:53:30 +0200 > m...@mtjm.eu (Michał Masłowski) wrote: > >> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.nonfree >> lists some non-free packages from main. >> >> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.needsclean >> lists packages which contain or recommend non-free software, but could >> be modified into free ones. >> >> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines >> is the canonical resource on this topic. >> >> The nonfree repository of Debian is probably also non-free. >> >> At least some packages in contrib require non-free dependencies. >> Others could be modified to not need them or be used with free >> replacements for them (e.g. with free Java implementations). > > Contrib is for software that depends on items in non-free or is just a > wrapper around a downloader for non-free data. > > The other big thing that would be considered non-free in debian is the > doco - eg, the wiki giving instructions on installing non-free software. > kk
Surprisingly, you might want to include some of the packages from Debian's non-free repository as they were moved to 'non-free' because they are under the GFDL licence which is considered DFSG-incompatible. http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Licenses_that_are_DFSG-incompatible I don't know what gNewSense's position is on the GFDL. An example is the automake documentation <http://packages.debian.org/automake1.9-doc> which taken from GNU automake package available on the GNU website <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/>. Mike.
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