Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Are those really bugs?

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue Oct   8 03:03:52 2013 Marek Buras <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've looked at the bugs list today as I used to do in the past. While
> searching for a candidate to solve I've found those five:
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40185
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40186
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40187
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40188
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40193
> 
> Are they really bugs? In all cases there's a word "free" used as in "free
> beer" in relation to some propriatary programs which are (or where at
> the time of writing the files) free as in beer and nothing more. Noone
> suggests using those programs nor the information is visible in the
> libraries. Should we really patch those packages? Maybe it's better to
> mark them as "won't fix" and move to the other ones?

I am mobile at the moment but from memory the fsdg requires a clear extortion 
not to use proprietory software when it is mentioned. Due to the ambiguous 
wording noted in the bugs i would say they are valid.

Thanks,
kk