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-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.