I've been skimming through changes in the non-FSDG list [1] in recent
months. First of all a big thanks to Grant H. for filling in the blanks
and cleaning it up.
I have some comments to straighten out some details.
The Thunderbird entry got an additional problem: non-free search
plugins. It references a Parabola bug report. I wonder what exactly is
non-free about those search plugins. I can see that the suggested patch
is useful for concerns other than freedom (e.g. privacy).
The entry for OpenOffice.org originally suggested to link to a list of
free extensions and to remove the non-free components or to
alternatively use LibreOffice. Now it only suggests the latter, although
I chose the former for the current stable release of gNewSense (and for
the upcoming beta) to avoid integration problems.
The "PN=" item for the entries was invented so that source package names
could be scraped from the wiki and fed to a blacklister. It's not
currently used that way for gNewSense, but it doesn't hurt to maintain
it. I don't see an immediate use for listing the binary package names
too, though.
I have still to execute my idea of changing the titles from package-like
names (e.g. helix-player) to software/project names (e.g. Helix player).
I take it there are no objections. If anyone else wants to take up that
task, be my guest.
[1] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG
