Dear Linux-libreans :) I am writing on behalf of the FreeSlack project, where I am one of the lead maintainers, along with Matt Samudio. I am writing to this list on the advice of Joshua Gay of the FSF licensing team.
On 03/01/2016 08:20 AM, Joshua Gay via RT wrote: > Yes, I think it sounds like it's worth taking a step in this direction. > The first thing I would do is join the GNU Linux-libre mailing lit if > you have not already done so and let them know about your project and > that would like their help in looking it over to make sure you meet all > of the GNU Free Distribution Guidelines (GFDG), > <http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines>. > > I will have an internal discussion with the FSF licensing team and a > very quick look at the project to make sure nothing obvious stands out. > The most important thing is a project making a stated commitment to the > GFDG and promising to remove any nonfree bugs when they get reported in > a timely manner. These are indeed (some of) our commitments (we will amend our wiki to say so explicitly), and our official description follows: > FreeSlack is a Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware. The project's > primary goals are to document all non-free software in Slackware > distribution, and to make it easy for users to maintain a fully free > OS based on Slackware. > > Technically speaking, FreeSlack is a complete distribution and a > Slackware derivative, but we prefer to think of ourselves as a > shortcut to a free flavor of Slackware. We are not affiliated with > the Slackware project, have no developers in common, and share no > infrastructure. We use the term Slackware only in reference to the > stock OS distributed by Patrick Volkerding. One of our ambitions is > to become integrated within the existing Slackware community, and we > hope to achieve that by making the smallest possible changes needed > to deblob Slackware, while leaving all technical decisions up to the > Slackware team. [[ http://freeslack.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start ]] We have a free DVD image which installs a deblobbed (free) derivative of Slackware, with package manager configured to use our free repository, so that the user is never compelled to obtain anything from the Slackware servers. [[ http://freeslack.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installation ]] The source code for the project is described and linked to as well. [[ http://freeslack.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installation#source_code ]] So we would like to go ahead and see if anyone would like to help us out through the certification process, and towards being officially FSDG-compliant. Please let us know what you think.
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