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

[Sylvain Beucler]

(Sending again keeping Aaraai in copy, he's not subscribed. Please
keep people in Cc:)

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:02:20PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 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