Group: Software/FSDG distributions
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 | Require package to be built from source | Reuse packages or binaries | Computer support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragora | ||||
| Dynebolics | ||||
| Guix | Yes | Only to build some compilers. | No restrictions | |
| Hyperbola | Yes[1] | |||
| LibreCMC | ||||
| Parabola | Yes | Yes[2] | 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<ref>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. | To support a device, Replicant requires:
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| Trisquel | ||||
| Ututo |
References
- ↑ 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.
