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Bug#: 1584
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Opened: 2007-06-25 23:06 GMT+3
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Reporter: Robert Schuster <thebohemian [at] gmx.net>
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Summary: provide system management software under free software licenses
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Several applications and libraries found on the N800 internet tablet/IT OS
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2007.10 are distributed under restricted and non-free license terms according
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to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, Open Source Definition and Free
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Software definition.
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I hereby politely ask for distributing those components under terms that are
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acceptable to the above mentioned guidelines.
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The applications of interest are:
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from the initfs: activate_panel, bt-cal, cal-tool, fb-chaimage, text2screen,
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wlan-cal, wlan-fw-update, retu-time, show_image, dsme, battest, bootstate,
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dsmetool, dspctl, waitfordsme and the script linuxrc
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the libraries of interest are:
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libbmeic.so, libcal.so, libdsme.so, libppu.so, libactivitymonitor.so,
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libcalmodule.so, libhwwd.so, libinactivity-blank.so, liblifeguard.so,
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libperipheral.so, libprocesswd.so, libstartup.so, libstate.so,
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libtemperature.so
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There may be other software artifacts which are of interest for which I will
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file separate bugreports if there is a need for them.
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Rationale:
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When Nokia/Maemo decided to use a variant of the GNU operating system and Linux
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as its kernel for implementing the Internet Tablet OS they profited from a
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wealth of knowledge and work invested in various software projects. With the
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help of free software licensing they were allowed to create a unique software
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environment which exactly implements the Maemo projects' goals. Maemo has
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gained and still gains from those software projects because they are
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independently developed further giving Maemo more possibilities in the future.
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One of the key goals of the GNU project is to give its user's the freedom to
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implement their own ideas. This goal is to be reached by writing free software
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and sometimes (in the early days often) replacing proprietary software.
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The non-free bits in the core infrastructure of the IT OS 2007 are a road block
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for efforts to create free operating systems/distributions besides IT OS on the
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N770/N800.
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The reason for why it is helpful to have other operating system/distribution on
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the N800 is simple: There are hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions out there.
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Each one exists because there is a userbase that exactly likes their flavor of
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GNU/Linux.
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For the N770/N800 Internet Tablets there exists only one such distribution: The
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Internet Tablet OS. With the sheer amount of GNU/Linux distributions for
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desktops/workstations/servers/routers/PDAs on the one hand and the single OS
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solution for the Internet Tablets on the other I doubt that it can handle all
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the possible uses people have.
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By releasing the above mentioned programs/libraries under free software
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licenses people will be given the same possibilities the Maemo project had in
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the first place.
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Let us be free.
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