List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines

List of common non free packages. The initial list comes from Trisquel -and should also match gNewSense filters-, so it contains both Ubuntu specific packages and common ones too.

Description: Afio manipulates groups of files, copying them within or between filesystems and an afio archive. Afio archives are portable as they contain only ASCII-formatted header information. Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Afio supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script.

Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/

Problem: "It may not be sold at a profit." /afio/usr/share/doc/afio/copyright

Recommended Fix:

References: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/afio

Copyright file: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/a/afio/afio_2.5-5/afio.copyright

Description: 3rd party proprietary software supplied by Canonical.

Homepage:

Problem: Recommends non-free apps.

Recommended Fix:

References: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/app-install-data-commercial

Copyright file: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/app-install-data-commercial/app-install-data-commercial_9/app-install-data-commercial.copyright

Description: Non-free firmware management utility (contrib)

Homepage:

Problem: Only useful to install non-free drivers

Recommended Fix:

References:

Copyright file:

Description: Non-free firmware management utility (contrib)

Homepage:

Problem: Only useful to install non-free firmware

Recommended Fix:

References:

Copyright file:

Description: Games by Parallel realities.

Homepage:

Problem: Includes artwork not properly licensed

Recommended Fix:

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Copyright file:

Description: PAM plugin

Homepage:

Problem: used to be under Artistic License

Recommended Fix: under GPLv2 since 2005: http://cracklib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cracklib/trunk/cracklib/README-LICENSE?view=markup

References:

Copyright file:

Description: Graphical file downloader

Homepage:

Problem: Non-free license: "This Program is free but not GPL!!! You can't modify it [...]"

Recommended Fix:

References:

Copyright file:

Description: Installer for nVidias proprietary drivers (contrib)

Homepage:

Problem: Only used to install non-free software

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Copyright file:

Description: Web browser

Homepage:

Problem: recommends non-free software

Recommended Fix:

References: {{{R}}}

Copyright file:

Description: Free Pascal compiler.

Homepage:

Problem: non-free software (and a copyright violation)

Recommended Fix: 2.2.2 is required to make sure it's free

References: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2009-06/msg00010.html

Copyright file:

Description: free game.

Homepage:

Problem: musical plagiarism

Recommended Fix:

References: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00324

Copyright file:

Description: Adobe CMap files for handling CJKV fonts. This is a component of GPL Ghostscript, a postScript interpreter and renderer

Homepage: http://www.ghostscript.com

Problem: license prohibits modification

Recommended Fix: GNU Ghostscript http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html

References: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg22474.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487510

Copyright file: http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/gs/LICENSE

Description: implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight web application framework

Homepage: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

Problem: recommends non-free software (Microsoft Media Pack)

Recommended Fix:

References: http://ossguy.com/?p=266

Copyright file: http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/moon/LICENSE?view=co http://ossguy.com/moonlight/microsoft_media_pack_eula.xhtml

Description: Adobe CMap files for handling CJKV fonts. This is a component of poppler, a PDF rendering library Note: not all GNU/Linux distributions split poppler-data from poppler (e.g. Fedora)

Homepage: http://poppler.freedesktop.org

Problem: license prohibits modification

Recommended Fix: GNU Ghostscript http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html

References: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500132 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg22474.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487510

Copyright file: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler-data/COPYING?view=co

gnome-app-install

The Ubuntu version recommends non-free software. (contrib)

gstreamer0.10-pitfdll

Loader for non-free dll codecs (contrib)

helix-player

Suggest the user to download Real Player

isdnutils

original BSD license for some files

ivman

Has some issues and was also orphaned: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208737#c18

jockey

Installer for propietary drivers (contrib)

linux linux-backports-modules linux-ubuntu-modules

Replaced by linux-libre

linux-wlan-ng

Listed in the gNewSense deltah filters (contrib?)

lucida

Bitmap fonts donated to the X Consortium many years ago under a verbatim license.

nikto

Files: plugins/db_* "The license is non-free".

nvidia-xconfig nvidia-settings

Config tool for the non-free driver (contrib)

ophcrack

Windows password cracker (contrib) Discuss.

pdftk

Non-free code included: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236310#c0

ndiswrapper, ndisgtk

Wrapper for proprietary drivers (contrib)

rman

original Artistic License

scribus-ng-doc

Released under Open Publication License and the author exercises the “LICENSE OPTIONS”

Description: TeX Live: Essential binaries These programs are regarded as basic for any TeX system.

Homepage: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=getnonfreefonts

Problem: Includes a script that dowloads and installs non-free fonts, called getnonfreefonts. The script can be safely removed

Recommended Fix:

References: http://man.he.net/man1/getnonfreefonts http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=jaunty&section=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=getnonfreefonts

Copyright file:

ubufox

Firefox branding, recommends non-free plugins (contrib)

unrar

Non-free license.

vrms

Incomplete and misleading.

Please add your packages to the list with a description of the reason to be blacklisted.