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Revision as of 22:03, 27 June 2021
Contents
Members
Team Captain: David Hedlund
Participants:
Unapproved software
Entries here should be Protected with the following settings: [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)
Non-Free Network Services
Promotes or depends entirely on a non-libre network service.
1 listed:
| Name | |
|---|---|
| LanguageTool | LanguageTool |
Trademark
"Trademarks and FOSS are not incompatible" - https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/licensing/2020/FOSSmarksv2.pdf
6 listed:
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Bugzilla | |
| IceCat/Lightbeam | |
| Iceape | |
| Pale Moon | |
| Scratch | |
| SeaMonkey |
Software evaluation
See also: Project Team Free software evaluation
4 listed:
| License | |
|---|---|
| Brave Browser | |
| Chromium | |
| Iridium Browser | |
| Signal |
Discussed
Chromium-based browsers and software
See also [1].
- Brave Browser
- Chromium itself. See Talk:Chromium page for instructions on how to contribute to ongoing evaluation.
- Iridium Browser (based on the Chromium code base)
- Ungoogled-Chromium
Electron[2]
- The Electron web framework itself
- Atom
- Etcher
- Jami
- Riot.im
- Visual Studio Code - Note: Visual Studio Code binaries are not free software, but the source is licensed under the Expat license.
- VSCodium - Note: Visual Studio Code without tracking and proprietary builds.
- Wire
Qt WebEngine[1][2]
- The Qt WebEngine library itself
- Falkon
- KDevelop
- Konqueror
- Nextcloud (specifically nextcloud-client)
- Qtcreator
- Quassel
- QupZilla
- QuteBrowser
- SuperCollider
- Many others ....
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2017-12/msg00008.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2017-01/msg00001.html
Telegram (desktop client)
- NonFreeNet, UpstreamNonFree - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/
- Has delayed availability of source files compared to the binary release. See the numbered items below for more information.
- Investigate if, after a binary release, the software has a license notice available somewhere and a place telling how to contact the copyright holders for the complete corresponding source.
- Free/libre software philosophy related issue: lacks federation with XMPP. See the whole parent thread of the references from the enumerated list below, and also the page on XMPP in LibrePlanet wiki.
- https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/private/android/2017-December/001049.html (requires subscription)
- https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/private/android/2017-December/001075.html (requires subscription)
Investigate if these can be built and run entirely in free/libre system distributions
- Rufus: claims to build and run only on Windows.
Trademark
Free_Software_Directory:Antifeatures#Trademark
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/list/
- Scratch: http://download.scratch.mit.edu/scratch-1.4.0.6.src.tar.gz: /TRADEMARK_POLICY
EME
Tor Browser - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16285
Nonfree JS
Every JavaScript file in every software for each new version release should be evaluated with command line tool that has the same capabilities as LibreJS. Unfortunate there's no such tool yet.
Nonfree servers
Currently the integration server is not configurable in this client.
- Riot.im
IRC clients
| Software | LibreJS evaluation link | LibreJS compatibility | Issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gamja | https://web.libera.chat/gamja/ | ? | |
| Kiwi IRC | https://web.libera.chat/#fsf, https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#irc://web.libera.chat/#fsf | Not working | feature request |
| The Lounge | https://demo.thelounge.chat/ | Not working | feature request |
| qwebirc | http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=fsf | Not working | feature request |
We're using irc:// in Template:Print_entry (used on the entry pages like IceCat) and Template:IRC_text (used on the Main Page).
Related: IceCat, Free web-based IRC client replacement for Mibbit needed (try irc://web.libera.chat/#fsf for example)
Parabola blacklisted software
Somebody should ask the developers to remove proprietary code/fonts, etc, from the software listed below.
Blacklisted Parabola software that is approved in the Directory Note: these programs are considered to be non-free as published by their respective upstreams; but many of them have known liberation procedures and are available in Parabola and other FSDG distros in modified form.
- Abiword
- Abs
- Abuse
- Acpi_call
- Apache_Ant
- Ark
- Atom
- Atool
- Bbswitch
- Bfgminer
- Blackbox
- Blender
- Bogofilter
- Boinc
- Bugzilla
- Bumblebee
- Calibre
- Capi4hylafax
- Cdrtools
- Cgminer
- Clementine
- Clojure
- Clonezilla
- Closure_Compiler
- Cowsay
- Drbl
- Ecasound
- Engrampa
- Epiphany
- Gfxboot
- Gnormalize
- Grub
- Hydrogen
- Jmol
- Kopete
- Kile
- Kodi
- Konqueror
- Krusader
- Libxfce4ui
- Mapnik
- Maven
- Mc
- Mesa
- Midori
- Minitube
- Mp32ogg
- Netpbm
- Pacman
- Povray
- Psutils
- Pyrit
- Qtcreator
- Qupzilla
- Ruby
- Shntool
- Shutter
- Systemd
- Vim
- Wings3d
- Xarchiver
- Xscreensaver
- Parley
- Bladerf
About
This project page is for heightened scrutiny, packages that need a second pass essentially.
Software should be considered non-free until proven otherwise - the burdon of proof should be on the developers to prove their code is 100% freely distributable.
Script
[See https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/tree/?h=development for more scripts]
#!/bin/bash
readonly WIKI_BASE_URL=https://directory.fsf.org/wiki
readonly BLACKLIST_URL=https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/plain
readonly BLACKLIST_FILE=blacklist.txt
wget $BLACKLIST_URL/$BLACKLIST_FILE
[ ! -f ./$BLACKLIST_FILE ] && echo "download failed" && exit 1
readonly PACKAGES=$(grep '^\s*[^:#]*:.*' ./$BLACKLIST_FILE | \
sed 's/^\s*\([^:#]*\):.*/\1/ ; s/^./\U&/g ; s/-./\U&/g ; s/-/_/g')
for package in $PACKAGES
do status=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" $WIKI_BASE_URL/$package)
if [ "$status" == '200' ]
then echo "$package entry exists"
elif [ "$status" == '404' -o "$status" == '301' ]
then echo "$package entry not found"
else echo "$package unknown response"
fi
done
License verification
All pages in license pages should have the correct version of the GPL. "The ones I looked at were pretty old, so I'm guessing they're mostly gplv2, but we should get it fixed." (Donald) "It's either the project which inserted the name without version, or the person who added the entry which did it that way." (Adfeno)
See also
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The copyright and license notices on this page only apply to the text on this page. Any software or copyright-licenses or other similar notices described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution or license text itself.