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Gnash Considered Non-Free by Gobuntu?
From: |
DC Parris |
Subject: |
Gnash Considered Non-Free by Gobuntu? |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:29:01 -0400 |
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KNode/0.10.2 |
I recently learned, and verified that someone has submitted
Gnash as a "non-Free" package for Gobuntu. Frankly, even given that the
submitter lists "patents & reverse engineering", I'm baffled as to how,
exactly, he arrived at the conclusion that Gnash is non-Free.
Is he assuming patent infringement? Is it a good idea to
consider 'possible' or 'allegedly' infringing code to be 'non-Free' without
some sort of proof positive?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu/pkg-non-free
The submitter for the Gnash package is "RyanP"
I find the Mono submission to be slightly less puzzling, and don't know
enough about the Samba project to comment on how well they vet their code.
On the other hand, I believe Gnash is an official GNU project, and am
assuming that GNU has implemented the same checks it normally does.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Don
--
DCP