[GNU-linux-libre] Recent changes to non-FSDG list

[Sam Geeraerts]

I've been skimming through changes in the non-FSDG list [1] in recent 
months. First of all a big thanks to Grant H. for filling in the blanks 
and cleaning it up.

I have some comments to straighten out some details.

The Thunderbird entry got an additional problem: non-free search 
plugins. It references a Parabola bug report. I wonder what exactly is 
non-free about those search plugins. I can see that the suggested patch 
is useful for concerns other than freedom (e.g. privacy).

The entry for OpenOffice.org originally suggested to link to a list of 
free extensions and to remove the non-free components or to 
alternatively use LibreOffice. Now it only suggests the latter, although 
I chose the former for the current stable release of gNewSense (and for 
the upcoming beta) to avoid integration problems.

The "PN=" item for the entries was invented so that source package names 
could be scraped from the wiki and fed to a blacklister. It's not 
currently used that way for gNewSense, but it doesn't hurt to maintain 
it. I don't see an immediate use for listing the binary package names 
too, though.

I have still to execute my idea of changing the titles from package-like 
names (e.g. helix-player) to software/project names (e.g. Helix player). 
I take it there are no objections. If anyone else wants to take up that 
task, be my guest.

[1] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG