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Revision as of 11:23, 5 October 2009
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: |
References: |
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 |
Recommended Fix: |
References: |
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 |
References: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg22474.html |
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 |
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 |
References: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500132
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg22474.html |
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”
- 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.