Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-22 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. ]]] > hopefully people migrating to the chromium engine are sympathetic with > the

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-14 Thread Isaac David
Le lun. 9 janv. 2017 à 15:24, Hanno Böck a écrit : I've read through the entire thread now and tried to follow the links, yet I can't find any evidence for the claim that chromium is nonfree. It could very well be free by now, but only if you are willing to overlook the fact

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread fauno
Hanno Böck writes: > I'd also want to note that there are good reasons why people want to > move from webkit to the chrome rendering engine. Many applications > using webkit have been stuck with unfixed security vulnerabilities in > the past. The chromium engine is well

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread Kees Epema
As far as I know the "Links" text browser is completely free software and does not rely on Webkit and Gecko. It has some disasvantages as no support for Flash and Java. And are you sure webkit has not a free software version? I think it does. https://webkit.org/ If for privacy concerns, I

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread johnny saylor
On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:02:59 -0500 Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > IceCatMobile is in F-Droid which is a liberated version of > firefox. there is also "privacy browser" on f-droid but it may not have some of the features you are looking for. i have been quite happy with this

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
IceCatMobile is in F-Droid which is a liberated version of firefox. Non-free addons are still available through the Mozilla add on directory but IceCatMobile directs you to a FSF directory of addons instead. On January 9, 2017 4:31:00 AM EST, Lyberta wrote: >Does Gecko

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread Lyberta
Does Gecko pass free software guidelines? On Android I use Firefox from F-Droid repository and the app page says the following: * This app promotes non-free add-ons * This app tracks and reports your activity * The upstream source code is not entirely free And if not Gecko, what browsers/engines

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-08 Thread Luke
On 01/08/2017 07:05 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ 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. ]]] > > This sounds like a big

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-07 Thread Alejandro
F..CK!! What the hell is thinking KDE? I like KDE, but their compromise with Libresoftware is repetedly insuficient. G El 8 de enero de 2017 3:15:44 CET, "André Silva" escribió: >Hi guys, since Chromium is blacklisted as nonfree software [0] we have >a

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-07 Thread fauno
André Silva writes: > Hi guys, since Chromium is blacklisted as nonfree software [0] we have a > serious issue. KDE is migrating their apps to QTWebEngine which contains > Chromium as the embed engine inside it. [1] > > Blacklisting it could be a solution, however since