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

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:15:36 +0200
Henry Jensen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> a number of freedom bugs have been reported at the ConnochaetOS Bug
> Report forum.
> 
> It seems that all this bugs exists in many (if not most) other free
> distros as well, which is why report them here, too. I also didn't
> found this issues at
> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines

Thanks for letting us know.

> Freepascal (fpc)
> ================
> http://www.connochaetos.org/forum/topic.php?id=1490
> found the following in these two files:
> 
> fpcbuild-2.4.2/fpcsrc/packages/opengl/src/gl.pp
> fpcbuild-2.4.2/fpcsrc/packages/opengl/src/glu.pp

Not the first time we've had issues with fpc:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2009-06/msg00010.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/fpc/+bug/275688
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#fpc

Does 'someone' have time to do a full audit of the package? (I haven't
checked how large this is, so it might be an unreasonable request).
thanks,
kk

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