Should we abandon 'fortunes-ubuntu-server' package from Trisquel repos?
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Synaptic Package Manager lists a package named 'fortunes-ubuntu-server'. According to the package description available:-
"This package provides a set of tips on using Ubuntu server, in a
fortune database format."
Since we don't embrace Canonical's 'open source' culture, it makes perfect sense not to use their server software too, unless its liberated from non-free blobs.
I would like to know if this package can be removed/abondoned from Trisquel repos.
It certainly seems to have a lot of ubuntu and canonical related items so we probably should get rid of it.
I've looked at this package. Firstly, yes there are branding and GNU FSDG[1] problems with some of the entries, so please open an Issue for those. There are only 64 fortunes in the package, so fixing the English version is doable.
Note that Ubuntu's 'Server' is like Trisquel's drawn from the same package repos as the desktop flavour. So where the software mentioned is free it is also in Trisquel.
However, there is a wider point raised by this thread. Trisquel is interested in Branding and GNU FSDG issues, *not* arbitrary censorship of all things 'open source' just because we happen to have philosophical differences with them. If we believe in software freedom, then we better also have a strong grasp on freedom of speech and opinion.
Note that doesn't mean I think people are at liberty to ignore the forum guidelines.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
I decided to open this for you
#14345: fortunes-ubuntu-server has branding and GNU FSDG issues
Hi Leny,
Please mark the bug report I filed here https://trisquel.info/en/issues/14344 as a duplicate of your bug report.
The links you and Leny posted seem to suggest that it's his post that's a duplicate :)
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