Sir, please check my inline comments. On 12/11/07, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:I just can't follow this. Let's see what's written in the OpenBSD ports page (http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html): "Motivation OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there is a lot of software that one might want to see added. However, there is the problem of where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional licensing and export restriction problems. As OpenBSD is supposed to be a small stand-alone UNIX-like operating system, some things just can't be shipped with the system." So, an operating system can born "free" (free as in speech, in the GNU sense) and then, become "non-free" just because some users decided to create a way to ease installations of software that "just can't be shipped with the system"? Despite some OpenBSD kernel developers are also port mantainers, I'd believe that the vast majority of the latter don't do kernel programming, so IMO, they could be labeled as "users" (since they're working in user space). Well, it seems that we have the following pattern: - gNewSense, if someone finds a non-free program in it, that's no disaster - anything else, if someone finds a non free program in it, that's surely a disaster Please, sir, clarify.... As a last question. Will gNewSense become "non-free" if I start a "ports-like" software install package project for it? Thanks in advance.
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