Re: [Savannah-register-public] hosting gnu apps for non gnu platform

[Sylvain Beucler]

Well I actually pointed Aaraai to this list (after he mailed me
directly, which is wrong because decisions are not made privately).

So I think the program needs to be portable, and run primarily on a
free platform. If it also runs on proprietary or semi-free platforms,
then it's OK, as long as the free platforms works at least as good as
other platforms.

The emulator is usually slower than the actual hardware, so I'd say
it's not as good as the original android platform.

I'm not familiar with Android so I can't tell exactly how a program is
tightly coupled to the proprietary firmware, but more generally, your
program must not encourage people to use non-free software.

-- 
Sylvain

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:10:34AM +0200, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote:
> Hello Aaraai,
> 
> 
> this mailing list is mainly a read-only list where the Savannah
> system logs the messages of the item tracker. I doubt it is read by many
> people except some technical staff.
> 
> I recommend to post that question on 
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers-public
> where most of the public discussions about Savannah's policy take place.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:15 +0100, info aaraai wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I plan to develop apps and am aware of other sites that would host it.
> > But wish to get official word from you if you find it offensive to
> > host such a software if it would be for use on a platform that isn't
> > 100% free software.
> > 
> > The application itself would conform to GNU/FSM requirements.
> > 
> > Reference:
> > Android (google) stuff is open source platform and apps could be GNU
> > licensed. But the platform itself isn't GNU. It uses open source Linux
> > kernel with proprietary firmware support and a fat stack of Apache2
> > licence on top of it.
> > 
> > (
> > My view:
> > #1: Like GNU software itself was developed keeping kernel development
> > independent, GNU apps for android could be allowed on your servers.
> > This might at some point of time reverse encourage using a purely open
> > platform too.
> > #2: Most apps can run on emulator that is purely open source stuff. Of
> > course Apache2.
> > )
> > 
> > Eagerly waiting to hear from you.
> > Regards,
> > Aaraai