Hi Frederic!
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:58:27AM +0800, Hong Feng wrote:
if all of us in the mailing list like this idea, then we need to draft a set of criteria to evalute the freedom degrees of the distributions. Any comments on the criteria are welcome to send me to collect.
- Basic and most important freedoms:
- Can the distribution be copied and passed on to someone else?
- Can it be used on different computers at the same time?
- Does it include the full source code for all necessary components for a minimal system installation?
- Is that source code covered by a free software licence?
- For finer distinctions for similar distributions:
- Which percentage of the packages/programs/disk space consists of free software?
- How essential are non-free packages for the normal use of the system in the distribution?
- What is included in the "default system setup" of the distribution?
Hmmm, there are probably many more things to be considered here!
Bye, Marc _______________________________________________________________________________
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