Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:05:35 +0200
schreef address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès):

> The GNU Guix project [0] is about producing (1) a package manager for
> the GNU system, and (2) a distribution of the GNU system (currently on
> top of Linux-Libre).  We would like the distribution to be officially
> recognized as an offspring of the fully free distro family.  ;-)

Looks pretty cool.

> The distro obviously contains only free software, and it follows the
> FSF free system distribution guidelines [2]; it is not based on any
> existing distribution.  Package contributors perform a license and
> copyright check on the packages they add.  Package meta-data records
> the license of each package [3]; we do not keep track of copyright
> notices on a per-file basis like Debian’s copyright files do.

Note that some packages may contain non-free files (e.g. [a]),
regardless of the license of the whole. There are also freedom issues
that are unrelated to the license of the code, e.g. encouraging the use
of non-free software [b]. I see that your packaging guidelines mention
these issues, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[a] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG#sharand
[b] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG#XChat