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Issue #2111

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Find the software licenses and remove nonfree software

Added by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 3 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
Category:
-
Target version:
Replicant 11.0 0001
Start date:
08/25/2020
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Device:
Not device specific
Grant:
Porting Replicant to Android 9 (NLnet Foundation)
Type of work:
Any programming languages (scripts, C, etc), System administration
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Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 3 years ago

  • Grant set to Porting Replicant to Android 9 (NLnet Foundation)
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Updated by _I3^ RELATIVISM about 3 years ago

  • Type of work System administration added
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Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 2 years ago

  • Device Not device specific added
  • Device deleted (Unknown)
  • Type of work Any programming languages (scripts, C, etc) added

Finding nonfree software doesn't require a specific device, we can also do it manually or through scripts.

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Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 2 years ago

Here's the status so far:

Component or path Status
kenrel/replicant/linux DONE WIP: I'm trying to use linux-libre without blocking nonfree firmwares
device/* Found several nonfree software, removed affected devices repositories
FAAC / FAAD libfaac not found, the FAAD decoder seems to have no clauses incompatible with
free software.
look if the FAAD decoder is free software
find . -path "./.repo" -prune -o -path "./out" -prune -o -name "*faac*"
TODO: find FAAD decoder and check the license. Also look at Wikipedia's
FAAC for more details
external/* I grepped the directory names against the names found in the list of
software that doesn't respect the FSDG1, but that list is also known
not to be up to date
Methods Status
Script that list licenses TODO
repo grep -i "reverse.*engineering" Found several nonfree software in device/* that were removed
TODO:
  • Ask Google for clarifications of the license of the manifest repository

References:

1 https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#mpc

original: 18 october 2021
edit1: 18 october 2021, Added libfaac find command
edit2: 18 october 2021, Added wikipedia link
edit3: 18 october 2021, Added TODO
edit4: 18 october 2021, Fixed reference syntax
edit5: 25 november2021, Updated status
edit6: 25 november2021, updated FAAC/FAAD status

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Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 2 years ago

I was told that Debian might have Deblob scripts that only remove the nonfree firmwares from Linux.

So we could apply these scripts to produce a deblobbed kernel version, and re-apply our patches on top.

In addition we could probably linux-libre with our patches on top to change Linux in GNU/Linux when it's relevant in the documentation.

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