Re: [libreplanet-discuss] FPGA free software toolchain

2016-04-11 Thread Koz Ross
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Arun, you may find this interesting: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ . The tl;dr version is that this has reverse-engineered some FPGAs, but they're pretty weedy. - -- Koz Ross www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using

[libreplanet-discuss] FPGA free software toolchain

2016-04-11 Thread Arun Isaac
Is there a complete free software toolchain (some kind of replacement for Xilinx) for working with FPGAs and CPLDs? What FPGA/CPLD chips work well with free software? In his LibrePlanet keynote, Snowden suggested that we use "FPGAs for everything". I find this interesting, and I'm asking this

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

2016-04-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
> * Ask the people that run those repositories to stop recommending > nonfree software. I think one additional feature I would like to see (not so much for the repositories themselves but for the underlying software), is a means of placing license restrictions on your projects or libraries. Most

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

2016-04-11 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm not fond of "free and open source software" because (as an > increasing

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

2016-04-11 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > As an incentive, perhaps the FSF could recognise ethical repositories > on

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] home / small office servers with free hardware

2016-04-11 Thread Ali Razeen
> On Apr 6, 2016, at 4:38 AM, Julien Kyou wrote: > > On April 6, 2016 4:08:44 AM AST, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> >> Can anybody comment on strategies for building a home or small office >> server using entirely free hardware? > > If your willing to

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

2016-04-11 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:25:03 +0200, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > I would also suggest that any Haskell developers and users who are > reading this email try to convince Hackage and haskell.org into > changing "open source" to *free software*, thereby highlighting what > really matters. Not

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

2016-04-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 As an incentive, perhaps the FSF could recognise ethical repositories on their Website. Although Hackage[0] rejected my patch to change "open source" to "free software", they have taken a commendably clear stance in rejecting nonfree software. I