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I'm sort of surprised that there isn't a topic about this here already. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is going through with a proposal called "Electronic Media Extensions" (EME), which is an attempt to incorporate Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML itself by standardizing a...

Well, actually, yes, requiring the use of the GPL would be promoting freedom; it would encourage anyone who is convinced that Stellar is good for them to make their game which would otherwise bee nonfree into free software. But in fact, SGE is under the GNU Lesser General Public License. You...

The Stellar website is sort of out of date. Stellar used to be built directly on top of Pygame, so that's why it directs you there. SGE's docs are contained within the download, and in the Git repository. They are README (an introduction) and MANUAL (the SGE API reference) in the base...

Mostly right, but a couple key points: - On that last point, I was just poking fun. It's unethical for the developers of these programs to make them nonfree, but I judge the developers of these programs, not the users or the community, and judgment is not my end goal. My only goal is to promote...

Yeah, I saw that. You guys have been naughty: an improved Gameboy emulator which is nonfree, and a DS emulator which is nonfree. :P Nah, my Pandora mission was clearly a failure. This community cannot be converted. Therefore, I have moved on to spread the word of the Church of Emacs elsewhere...

Hello again, OpenPandora community. I've been gone for quite a while now (4 months or so?), though I don't know if anyone noticed. I'm not interested in the Pandora anymore, and I'm not really all that interested in this open source community, either. However, you might be interested in this...

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Do I really need to do "find" searches for you now? If you have a decent browser, all you need to do is press "Ctrl-F" on your keyboard. No, my problem is with making it a simple switch, or an uncommented line. For this reason, a separate (mirror) repo would work better; the option can just...

Where in that, or anywhere on anything by the Free Software Foundation, do you see any suggestion that their goal is better software?

Well, I'm sorry you don't believe what the FSF says about the FSF's position.

Two of those quotes I'll give you for now (see below), but two of those quotes... um... let me just talk about them individually: Both of these refer to freedoms 2 and 3: the freedom to distribute, both commercially and noncommercially, exact copies and modified versions. That is a HUGE...

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when_free_software_isnt_practically_better.html Do you believe me now? These are extremely easy to find; they're two of the 11 articles listed under "Introduction" on the Philosophy page of the...

That is wrong. The reason for the FSF wanting software freedom is purely ethical. What you described there is the goal of the open source movement.

No, it doesn't mean "GPL compatible". CC BY-SA is incompatible with the GPL, and it is a free license according to the FSF. A license is free if it gives the user the four essential freedoms. The GNU GPL is a copyleft license, which means that any work licensed under it can only be...

Well, no, if the program doesn't allow you to commercially redistribute exact copies (or worse, doesn't allow you to noncommercially distribute exact copies, i.e. share), it does not overlap with the intention of the FSF, which is to eliminate nonfree software. It is nonfree, so the FSF is...

GPL compatibility has nothing to do with it. But sure, a flexible filter would be fine.

Note: such a license is not a free software license, since one of the four freedoms (freedom 2) is the freedom to redistribute exact copies, both commercially and noncommercially. I don't know if it's an open source license or not. If you want to sell games as free software without giving...

If there is a separate "libre" repo, then this override would involve a config file where you can change your software source to the normal Repo. This can't be a line that is simply commented out, but rather it has to be a change that the user very explicitly makes. I'm not in favor of the...

Bah... I'm gone for one night, and you guys are already saying silly things. I have played nonfree games before, but if you honestly think that all games are nonfree, you are very mistaken. I have a huge list of some of them that I like on my website, but some of the many free games available...

Are you sure about that? I've never heard that anywhere else.