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Launchpad appears to be a websiteLaunchpad appears to be a websitePosted Nov 2, 2006 18:16 UTC (Thu) by grantingram (subscriber, #18390)In reply to: New distribution: gNewSense 1.0 by TxtEdMacs Parent article: New distribution: gNewSense 1.0
Well as far as I understand it launchpad is the website that Ubuntu (and others apparently) use to do their development with. The blurb on their site claims it is "Launchpad is a collection of services for products in the open source universe." What I don't understand is why this is an issue for the FSF. There is no obligation to distribute your web-site software in the four freedoms so I'm not sure what they are on about!
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Launchpad appears to be a website Posted Nov 3, 2006 3:08 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Well I don't think that they are making a issue of it aside from the fact that they don't want anything to do with it.
I don't know how much influance RMS has over FSF, but the basic idea that he has is that when you have a software distro that provides non-free software it is a non-free operating system. Every system including Fedora and Debian endorse non-free software in one manner or another. (non-free and contrib repositories for instance)
Their explicit goal is to make a Free operating system. If people want to use propriatory software on a system I don't think they have a problem with it nor do they think that it's Ubuntu's obligation to free-up launchpad.
Ubuntu can free it or not. FSF just wants to have a free system, at least at this point, they aren't demanding anybody else do anything. (except remain compliant with the licensing and terms of GPL, of course)
Anyways so far what I've seen from Launchpad.. it is VERY unimpressing. I don't think that gNewSense is going to be missing out on anything.
Launchpad appears to be a website Posted Nov 5, 2006 21:22 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Fedora doesnt endorse non-free repositories in anyway. There is no formal non-free or contribs repository.
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