Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-10 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: > Hi, > > ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> For now there seem to be two main pages on which the documentation of >> what is free/nonfree is: >> - >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Architecture/Top_Level_Architecture

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-10 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > For now there seem to be two main pages on which the documentation of > what is free/nonfree is: > - > http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Architecture/Top_Level_Architecture > - http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages > >

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-08 Thread Quim Gil
ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Funambol SyncML > --- > > Claims "Funambol is the leading mobile open source project and leading > provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions > of phones." > > https://www.forge.funambol.org/DomainHome.html > > If it

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Heya David, David Greaves writes: > If this is a reasonable compromise then it would be great to see this > work integrated with the maemo community efforts - IIRC there have been > other initiatives to investigate this kind of data so maybe they could > be dug up? That's my intention, see my r

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread David Greaves
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 22:16 -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Hello, > > I'm compiling a list on the Libre Planet wiki to determine what packages > are nonfree, and what steps would need to be taken to make the n900 a > fully free phone: > > http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/FreeMaemo Hi Christ

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Carsten Valdemar Munk writes: > Did you in your research run into Mer, btw? http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer > - we strive towards having a 100% OSS platform on the software side > (our views probably differ on the HW support side but so it goes) I did run across Mer, and I was considering incorpor

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
So first of all, I'd like to note that I was very happy to wake up to thse replies, particularly this one. It does raise a lot of confidence. > Can it be that we start having several iniciatives like this spread in > different places? At the end the goal is the same: Maemo as open as > technicall

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Alberto Mardegan
Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Mission control > --- > > Marked as nonfree on the graph, however irc conversation reveals: > > paroneayea: MC itself is LGPL [15:13] > paroneayea: Maemo uses osso-mission-control, which is upstream MC plus > some proprietary bits > > Any de

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Carsten Valdemar Munk
Quoting Christopher Allan Webber : > While researching this list, I found some components that are currently > marked as nonfree here: > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Architecture/Top_Level_Architecture > > ... but which now appear to be free software. For good mea

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-11-30 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Hello, > > I'm compiling a list on the Libre Planet wiki to determine what packages > are nonfree, and what steps would need to be taken to make the n900 a > fully free phone: > > http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/FreeMaemo Thank you! This is a nice first shot

Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello, I'm compiling a list on the Libre Planet wiki to determine what packages are nonfree, and what steps would need to be taken to make the n900 a fully free phone: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/FreeMaemo While researching this list, I found some components that are currently marked as nonfree h