Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Webmin

[Ramana Kumar]

On Jun 20, 2012 8:50 PM, "Jason Self" <jason@bluehome.net> wrote:
>
> Quiliro Ordóñez <quiliro@congresolibre.org> wrote ..
> > I have checked Webmin's license and
> >
> libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines
> > I cannot find that it is non-free.
>
> Please don't think that's an exhaustive list of all non-free software in existence.
>
> > Is it OK to use
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.580_all.deb on
> > Trisquel?
>
> I understand that you want to know if it's free software or not, and Webmin
> appears to be under a permissive free software license [1], but please don't
> think that you need anyone's permission ("Is it OK...") to install software on
> your own machines. :)

Parabola has an automatic method for ensuring non free programs are not installed with its package manager (by checking against a community-maintained blacklist, the your-freedom package). Maybe something like this would be useful for Trisquel.

>
> [1] http://github.com/webmin/webmin/blob/master/LICENCE