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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] SMGL as GNU-certified Free(R)(TM) Distro?
  • Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:02:25 -0800

http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions

If you look at the above link, you can see some Totally Free(R)(TM)
distros.

I wanted to ping the list to see if there's substantial support behind
meeting their criteria.

We'd need to do four things:

Change the social contract to eliminate the "we support non-free
software" section.

Eliminate the z-rejected grimoire to be hosted/maintained by a separate
system (no SCM or website mingling, grimoire url to be explicitly added).

Scan the grimoire for stuff that needs moved to the z-rejected section
and do that. (The FSF keeps a list of GPL-compatible and
non-GPL-compatible-but-free licenses.)

Switch our SCM to something(s) other than perforce for everything.

Who thinks this is worth it? Who thinks it's not worth it?

Seth

P.S. I favor becoming as Free(R)(TM) as possible. I will do what the
group desires, but I think it's something we should consider, at least.

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