Question on Bluetooth frontends.
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This is probably quite obvious to everyone else, but this quote from the interview at Distrowatch:
Begin quote:
As mentioned previously, Trisquel is developed using Ubuntu as a base, but the project has its own repositories which have been stripped of proprietary components.
End quote:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20101004#feature
seems to indicate to me that any and all packages in Synaptic for Trisquel are GNU compliant.
The reason for the question is that I downloaded Blueman as front end for Bluetooth and it does work as obex/push for a smartphone.
Again, this is probably quite obvious to others, but I'm just checking.
Janus
I'm sorry, but I've read through your post twice. I don't see any question there. What is it that you are trying to ask?
I'm not sure either. Blueman is free software, so I don't know what the problem would be.
Hi
Thanks for the reply.
And, let me apologize for the poor post.
Originally the question was more obvious and I had a lot of other text because I did a lot of looking on the net to see if Blueman was compliant; and then the sentence from the review percolated up in my memory.
I didn't know if there were possibly "blobs" in a depends of Blueman or whatever that were proprietary, seeing that it has to interact with various pieces of hardware and some hardware people don't open their code.
So, you answered the question, anything in the repo is "GNU compliant".
So..Blueman works with a smartphone using a dongle from Kensington on the tower. :) I am able to transfer pictures and documents.
Thanks
Janus
You are fine. Even hypothetically lets say a client was free software but to access a piece of hardware it needed some proprietary firmware the hardware simply wouldn't work. An example would be the wireless network manager. The manager client is free software. If I use a wireless USB card that works with free software I won't have any problems. However, if I were to put in a USB card that doesn't work with free software the client will still continue to operate but the wireless itself won't. So if you are using Trisquel and it works you have no problems.
Hi SirGrant.
That was a very good explanation.
If I could I might suggest that you, being an admin, retitle the original post that better reflects how it wandered a way into anything that is in Trisquel's repos are ok.
There might be at least a few "firebrands" that are sick of MS and see the review and try the distro but might not remember the particular line, ...
Kind of like I didn't! :)
Just a suggestion and it does not have to be done.
There was a guy in another Linux forum years ago that was so wound about all this that he had a tagline "Live Free or Die" or "Give me GNU software or give me death! " or something like that! :) I don't remember exactly, too many years, but...he was chided for it and that he should get "beyond the whole free software thing". I think that Trisquel would have been the perfect fit for him if he ever found it.
You guys are doing a great job!
janus
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