Determinig Externel (outside of repository) Software is "Free" or not.
My earlier post was How to check whether the software is free or not?. In which this and this are helpful.
As commented , I am here to asking help for determining software whether it is "free" or not (In other word Can/Should I install on Trisquel or not):-
- Boot Repair ; or Can/Should I trust on the repository listed by Ubuntu Community wiki?:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Note:-
In future (when needed) I will ask about/for further software on this forum (Update this instead of putting separately
I am a member!
Well the Ubuntu wiki page says: "Boot-Repair is a free software, licensed under GNU-GPL."
You can also take a look at the launchpad of yannubuntu (the developer): https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu
It says in his description that he is "dev of 4 GPLv3 apps: Boot-Repair, Boot-Info, OS-Uninstaller, Clean-Ubiquity" and then you can also browse the code there, you'll find this file:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/boot-repair/github/view/head:/debian/copyright
So yes, Boot Repair is free software. I mostly just look for the source code and then open readme, copyright or license files.