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diff --git a/doc/bug-report b/doc/bug-report deleted file mode 100644 index 6955f69..0000000 --- a/doc/bug-report +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -Bug#: 1584 -Opened: 2007-06-25 23:06 GMT+3 -Reporter: Robert Schuster <thebohemian [at] gmx.net> -Summary: provide system management software under free software licenses - -Several applications and libraries found on the N800 internet tablet/IT OS -2007.10 are distributed under restricted and non-free license terms according -to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, Open Source Definition and Free -Software definition. - -I hereby politely ask for distributing those components under terms that are -acceptable to the above mentioned guidelines. - -The applications of interest are: -from the initfs: activate_panel, bt-cal, cal-tool, fb-chaimage, text2screen, -wlan-cal, wlan-fw-update, retu-time, show_image, dsme, battest, bootstate, -dsmetool, dspctl, waitfordsme and the script linuxrc - -the libraries of interest are: -libbmeic.so, libcal.so, libdsme.so, libppu.so, libactivitymonitor.so, -libcalmodule.so, libhwwd.so, libinactivity-blank.so, liblifeguard.so, -libperipheral.so, libprocesswd.so, libstartup.so, libstate.so, -libtemperature.so - -There may be other software artifacts which are of interest for which I will -file separate bugreports if there is a need for them. - -Rationale: -When Nokia/Maemo decided to use a variant of the GNU operating system and Linux -as its kernel for implementing the Internet Tablet OS they profited from a -wealth of knowledge and work invested in various software projects. With the -help of free software licensing they were allowed to create a unique software -environment which exactly implements the Maemo projects' goals. Maemo has -gained and still gains from those software projects because they are -independently developed further giving Maemo more possibilities in the future. - -One of the key goals of the GNU project is to give its user's the freedom to -implement their own ideas. This goal is to be reached by writing free software -and sometimes (in the early days often) replacing proprietary software. - -The non-free bits in the core infrastructure of the IT OS 2007 are a road block -for efforts to create free operating systems/distributions besides IT OS on the -770/N800. - -The reason for why it is helpful to have other operating system/distribution on -the N800 is simple: There are hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions out there. -Each one exists because there is a userbase that exactly likes their flavor of -GNU/Linux. - -For the 770/N800 Internet Tablets there exists only one such distribution: The -Internet Tablet OS. With the sheer amount of GNU/Linux distributions for -desktops/workstations/servers/routers/PDAs on the one hand and the single OS -solution for the Internet Tablets on the other I doubt that it can handle all -the possible uses people have. - -By releasing the above mentioned programs/libraries under free software -licenses people will be given the same possibilities the Maemo project had in -the first place. - -Let us be free. |