Re: [GNU-linux-libre] license of 'yggdrasil' software

2023-03-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
be held accountable for it. That doesn't seem very useful to me, given how much everything has changed. I'd much rather focus on finding steps that could be taken now towards solving the problem. Thanks for listening, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] review of uruk

2023-03-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
people into behaviors that promote dependency rather than freedom. There is likely a lot more, but these are ones that come to mind immediately. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinfor

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] license of 'yggdrasil' software

2023-03-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ld back the demanded statement. Even after the position is filled, there will surely be quite a backlog to go through, so please bear with them. Thank you very much, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain E

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] license of 'yggdrasil' software

2023-03-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
lied on that permission. Once again, the result appears to be a program distributed under GPLv2, with corresponding sources. What is the problem, then? (again, I haven't looked at specifics of the nmap licensing arrangements, I'm speaking in general terms, IANAL, and I don't speak for GNU or for the

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] license of 'yggdrasil' software

2023-03-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the GPL (or, as in this case, also under LGPL). The additional permissions are of no concern for themselves unless they would like to do those things, which freedom-respecting distributors normally wouldn't want to do anyway. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://F

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Good practices for removing nonfree code found in source code.

2021-10-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
at make the process of cleaning history more convenient, we can eventually bump the requirements. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care dee

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] linux ppc micropatch.c: why keep it?

2021-09-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
es from back then. >> I'm now inclined to believe that leaving this file alone was one >> of very few mistakes (perhaps the only one) made in the initial >> cleaning-up, > If I only made one mistake in the initial release, I was lucky! ... and modest, after doing such a super

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] linux ppc micropatch.c: why keep it?

2021-08-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, and I'm respinning releases, and working on the git history rewrite, I thought it would be a good time to revisit these if needed. Thanks, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disin

[GNU-linux-libre] linux ppc micropatch.c: why keep it?

2021-08-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
n the git history rewrite project I've been slowly working on. thanks in advance for any information you may provide, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes becaus

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e it's Free, or at least some of the remaining tasks can be checked off. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain EngineerFree Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] PureOS added to endorsed distro list - what about the kernel?

2018-01-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
rsonal guess. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist|Red Hat Brasil GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] add uruk gnu/linux

2018-01-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to my attention. I had not realized pureos had its own separate website, and for some reason I'd assumed all of pureos was right there next to the nonfree repos I linked to (so much for my not leading people towards non-Free Software :-) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lx

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [gnu.org #1262331] (inactive Linux distributions)

2018-01-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to take up blag will have to sort that out. Hopefully I'll have a newer kernel-libre-firmware in place by then... -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member F

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] PureOS added to endorsed distro list - what about the kernel?

2018-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
d while still allowing proprietary firmware to be loaded, so... we don't allow it. It's still a bug, but apparently an unfixable one. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ F

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] PureOS added to endorsed distro list - what about the kernel?

2018-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
stros that intended to do such stuff, so RMS and I agreed we shouldn't implement that any more. GNU Linux-libre is supposed to do its job even if installed on such hostile distros. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [gnu.org #1262331] (inactive Linux distributions)

2018-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ught down, IIUC. There are backups, so nothing was really lost, but for some reason the server has never been reinstalled and brought back up to make the files available for web download again. I think they might still be available as torrents, if one can find a seeder. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterh

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] add uruk gnu/linux

2018-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
n, I haven't looked very closely. Am I missing something? https://puri.sm/posts/purism-patches-meltdown-and-spectre-variant-2-both-included-in-all-new-librem-laptops/ https://deb.puri.sm/pureos/dists/purism-nonfree/ https://deb.puri.sm/pureos/pool/non-free/i/intel-microcode/ Thoughts? --

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [gnu.org #1262331] (inactive Linux distributions)

2018-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
es like BLAG. The latter section would be the wake-up call, and if a distro remained too long in there, then it gets removed. It would also get users better information, and avoid giving users the idea that distros in the list are outdated just because they hit the one or two that really are. -- Ale

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Reviewing ConnochaetOS

2017-08-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ing the blob names in logged errors. I'm not sure the Debian kernel gets that far, I'm afraid. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Sof

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] gnu.org "Free GNU/Linux distributions" list updates

2017-08-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
p; blag.fsf.org, that's down, was much bulkier, in that it had the install isos and tree composes. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Soft

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Libreboot-dev] Hardware related confusions, Was: MAME

2016-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ash that has always been Free Software, etc? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist|Red Hat Brasil GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] JScreenRecorder v0.3 - a pure java screen recorder (100% free?)

2013-11-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Project SF Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscreenrecorder/ DirectRobot code site link: http://www.rune-server.org/programming/application-development/387765-directrobot-fast-java-robot-allows-screen-recording.html -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] GNU Linux-libre 3.3-gnu is now available

2012-05-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
? AFAICT it might be just a matter of reordering some sections, no? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] GNU Linux-libre 3.3-gnu is now available

2012-03-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
script the ability to introduce changes other than replacing undesirable stuff with /*(DEBLOBBED)*/, in a way that can greatly simplify the intelligence of the deblob-kver scripts while at that. I'm afraid I haven't even started the implementation yet. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp

[GNU-linux-libre] GNU Linux-libre 3.3-gnu is now available

2012-03-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
/linux-libre/releases/3.3-gnu/ Binaries are on the way, check the main web page for links to various repositories. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freedom issues in lame, cdrkit, SDL, foomatic-filters, freepascal, unzip

2011-09-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
that SGI relicensed under a Free Software license a while ago. If they are, taking them under the new license is probably an easy fix. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Linux-libre compilation option: Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary

2011-04-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, and those are the only ones Linux-libre carries and includes in the kernel binary if asked. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to tolerate any inconvenience for the sake of freedom. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
identifiers for the blobs. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files

2011-01-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
are. It sounds to me like the binaries are close enough to qualify as source. That's my understanding as well. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
) are easily integrated into git pull/merge/rebase, I believe so. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, this particular variant doesn't. Other variants, using a kernel-supplied varying hash prefix (which could be exposed through some file named hashprefix within /sys) could. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
instead found= while read file; do if test `echo -n $pfx$file | md5sum` = $requested -; then found=$f break fi done if test -n $found; then cat /lib/firmware/$found /sys/... else ... fi } -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. It doesn't actually change any branches. It takes a list of commits and creates remapped commits. Branches or tags can be reset to point to them afterwards. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. But without the first part, using our repository would be far more cumbersome than using upstream. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files

2011-01-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
with the binaries, the only issue now, if any, is GPL compliance: sh/could we ship only the binaries if we know they were built from textual sources that we don't ship? FWIW, 2.6.37-libre is already out, without the .cis files, but with requests for them. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files

2011-01-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
driver doesn't really offer the interface the userland program that makes the conversion relies on, or if it only fails to do so on a machine that doesn't have a pcmcia interface, but the important point is that it's definitely not functional on any random machine. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2011-01-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
that your solution does that. If it does, then the problem is solved indeed, but I didn't see any suggestion of yours that changed the way git pull or git merge operate. Can you please clarify? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files

2011-01-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, due to its much shorter history, less frequent changes, and smaller number of (remaining) files. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2010-12-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. Could you explain? Was this clear enough? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The Free Kernel In Debian Squeeze

2010-12-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
that firmware is missing: same as currently, minus the unsatisfyable request for a /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ firmware file. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] 3D with free software

2010-09-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
there. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: 100% Free Software T-shirt design

2010-06-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Thanks for all the contributions so far! On Jun 5, 2010, Alexandre Oliva lxol...@fsfla.org wrote: Islene (wife) and I have been working on a T-shirt design for FSFLA at FISL, to promote the 100% Free distros, that people could print and use at other events all over. Improvements

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: 100% Free Software T-shirt design - [Fwd: Una idea...]

2010-06-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
or something... Thoughts? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: 100% Free Software T-shirt design - [Fwd: Una idea...]

2010-06-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, it's not clear to me what you meant with this file that appears to be two separate designs. Is that for front and back, or what? Thanks, -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: 100% Free Software T-shirt design - [Fwd: Una idea...]

2010-06-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
because they're not distros. Thanks a lot of the designs, please keep them coming! -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: 100% Free Software T-shirt design - [Fwd: Una idea...]

2010-06-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to make some wallpapers for Trisquel, the distro wich I almost use all the time And obviously my english is very bad. I'm attaching another proposal for the t-shirt, basicly on the same way than the other but trying to follow the comments of Alexandre Oliva. Thanks, I've posted your designs

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: 100% Free Software T-shirt design

2010-06-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
that. But in this case, i think the best result will be get drawing them by hand. Heh. That would make me ineligible to work on it ;-) If I can't draw it with a keyboard, I can't draw it at all ;-) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see

[GNU-linux-libre] 100% Free Software T-shirt design

2010-06-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
/blogs/lxo/draft/100freesoftware.svg Improvements to the design are welcome. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist

[GNU-linux-libre] [en] Take your freedom back, with Linux-2.6.33-libre

2010-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
-2.6.33-libre ---End Message--- -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 9wm - No FSF Free

2009-08-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
but such a permission is missing in the 9wm license. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 9wm - No FSF Free

2009-08-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
copies The four freedoms don't look like they are being challenged, or am I wrong? Given that copyright prohibits modification, and the license doesn't grant permission for modifications, I think it's not enough for freedoms #1 and #3 to be respected :-( -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files

2009-08-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
and accept its restrictions, press ENTER echo If you do not accept them, press ^C now ;; esac read accept DIR=/opt/evilcorp/sekrit; export DIR mkdir -p $DIR echo $accept $DIR/.license wget -q -O - $URL/install.sh | sh exec $DIR/bin/sekrit -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files

2009-08-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
philosophy. I expect no less from the UTUTO project, the very first to undertake these efforts. It's a big surprise and disappointment to me that we're still having this conversation :-( -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see

[GNU-linux-libre] Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: Thunderbird recommending non-free software

2009-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 9, 2009, Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: IceCrow, IceRooster or some other Ice$BIRD in the true spirit of the iceweaselization, maybe... Oh my, if only GNU Carrier Pigeon made sense for a MUA, rather than an MTA... :-( -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] naming the Linux-libre artwork

2009-05-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the T-shirt printing underway? http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/attachments/20090415/1969b25d/attachment-0001.svg -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin