From 1f3c790d8797fffbf78599a2bf7a6289c3edc8a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pancake Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:00:29 +0200 Subject: * Initial import of the maemo bug report #1584 into documentation --- doc/bug-report | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bug-report (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/bug-report b/doc/bug-report new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a7ad84 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bug-report @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Bug#: 1584 +Opened: 2007-06-25 23:06 GMT+3 +Reporter: Robert Schuster +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 +N770/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 N770/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. -- cgit v1.2.3