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Re: Software that requires hardware that requires nonfree software to us
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Ian Kelling |
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Re: Software that requires hardware that requires nonfree software to use |
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Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:40:52 -0400 |
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Ron Nazarov <ron@noisytoot.org> writes:
> Is software that requires hardware that requires nonfree software to
> use allowed in the Free Software Directory?
> I think it indirectly has dependencies on nonfree software, as there is
> no way to use it without using nonfree software.
I think that if the nonfree software is outside of the bounds of the
free operating system that the free software is running on, it is ok to
be listed. For example, some software to do printing from gnu/linux on a
printer that has it's own internal nonfree os is ok.
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