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| + | The [https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html FSDG] has a section on non-functional data: "Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It can be included in a free system distribution as long as its license gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes. For example, some game engines released under the GNU GPL have accompanying game information—a fictional world map, game graphics, and so on—released under such a verbatim-distribution license. This kind of data can be part of a free system distribution, even though its license does not qualify as free, because it is non-functional.".</br> | ||
| + | So Free culture means that the distribution has a policy to go beyond what the FSDG requires and requires all works to be licensed under a free license, even if they are non-functional data.</ref> | ||
! Require package to be built from source | ! Require package to be built from source | ||
! Reuse packages or binaries | ! Reuse packages or binaries | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 5 January 2023
Introduction
This page can track some differences between FSDG compliant distributions.
This could help see if FSDG distributions can collaborate more on some topics.
Documentation
| Distribution | Documentation | Wiki | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Link | License | Link | License | Software | |
| N/A | Libreplanet | GFDL 1.3+ and copyright assignment | Mediawiki | ||
| Dragora | No Wiki found | ||||
| Dynebolics | No Wiki found | ||||
| Guix | GFDL 1.3 (+?) | libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix | GFDL 1.3+ and copyright assignment | Mediawiki | |
| Hyperbola | wiki.hyperbola.info | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Dokuwiki10 | ||
| LibreCMC | librecmc.org/fossil | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Fossil | ||
| Parabola | wiki.parabola.nu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Mediawiki | ||
| ProteanOS | Ikiwiki | ||||
| PureOS | |||||
| Replicant | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Redmine, migration to Mediawiki planned. | |||
| Trisquel | |||||
| Ututo | |||||
Policies
While FSDG compliant distributions need to follow the Free System Distribution Guidelines, they can also have additional policies that are more strict on other aspects.
Knowing that not only enables to choose the most adapted FSDG distribution to one's needs, but it is also important to keep in mind when trying to build cross-distribution collaboration.
For instance non-functional data licensed under the CC-BY-ND licenses is not allowed in Parabola but it might be allowed in other FSDG compliant distributions, so what might be a bug in Parabola is not necessarily a bug in other distributions.
| Distribution | Free culture[1] | Require package to be built from source | Reuse packages or binaries | Computer support |
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| Dragora | ||||
| Dynebolics | ||||
| Guix | No[2] | Yes | Only to build some compilers. | No restrictions |
| Hyperbola | Yes[3] | |||
| LibreCMC | ||||
| Parabola | Yes | Yes[4] | Reuse some packages from various distributions:
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Restrictions exist only for official support for ARM computers:
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| ProteanOS | ||||
| PureOS | ||||
| Replicant | Unknown (no decision) | No[5] | To support a device, Replicant requires:
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| Trisquel | ||||
| Ututo |
References
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The FSDG has a section on non-functional data: "Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It can be included in a free system distribution as long as its license gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes. For example, some game engines released under the GNU GPL have accompanying game information—a fictional world map, game graphics, and so on—released under such a verbatim-distribution license. This kind of data can be part of a free system distribution, even though its license does not qualify as free, because it is non-functional.".
So Free culture means that the distribution has a policy to go beyond what the FSDG requires and requires all works to be licensed under a free license, even if they are non-functional data. -
↑ According to an conversation on #guix on Liberachat the 05 January 2023, Guix sticks to the FSDG:
18:46 < GNUtoo> hi, I've a quick question: Does Guix require free licenses for non-functional works (like game data) or not? The FSDG allows licenses like cc-by-nd for that (but not the -nc ones).
18:46 < GNUtoo> The only thing I found on that is the following: https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Software-Freedom
18:46 < GNUtoo> but it's unclear if the question was considered or not
18:47 < nckx> We don't deliberately stray from the FSDG, in either direction, when it comes to licencing.
18:47 < nckx> (We might reject packages for other reasons out of its scope.)
18:48 < GNUtoo> ok, so I assume that cc-by-nd is ok for non-funcional data then, thanks a lot
- ↑ https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:chromium_flaws mentions that we (hyperbola) "require all software to be built from source"
- ↑ The documentation on Parabola blacklist format mention that blacklisting Arch Linux packages not built from source (by Arch Linux) need to be removed or replaced as the packages "must be compiled from source, as we are stricter about that than Arch is". Packages not build from source are package whose package definition download binaries and package the binaries.
- ↑ Even if binary packages are allowed, Replicant still needs to ship the complete and corresponding source code of binary packages as well, otherwise this would make the package nonfree and/or create license compliance issues for Replicant.
