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Description:

https://proj4.org/index.html

This package have valuable geodetic applications, and I intend to present Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre soon in universities and schools in East Africa.

The coordinate system there is not WGS84 and this package only in new version is providing the conversion from East African geographic coordinates to WGS84, and will be very usable in many industrial and private applications.

This is same issue as on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151273

The paths changed and trying to mount davfs file system defined in /etc/fstab fails with error: unknown file system davfs

To remedy, I made symlink in /sbin to mount.davfs

The transition of paths had to take that in account as many mounted remote disks failed after upgrade.

Description:

[gnupg]: shall be upgraded to mitigate risks with new vulnerabilities as explained on:
https://neopg.io/blog/encryption-spoof and on
https://gnupg.org/

Description:

community/purple-facebook 0.9.3-1
    Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple

It is up to maintainers to decide of course. IMHO I would remove this one as it uses proprietary network Facebook, exclusively, and even mentioning the word in the package.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so.

I have installed multiple times Hyperbola, 4 times on 4 different notebooks.

What I have noticed is that the live ISO is quite huge in relation to the task that should be done. Namely. the live ISO shall at least contain some first packages, so that they do not need to be downloaded online.

Best would be if the live ISO can be copied straight and that system can run from ISO/DVD without having Internet. At least one simple graphical environment shall be included.

Further, I have noticed that there is only network instructions as HTML file.

I would rather call it installation-instructions.html to make it clear for people what it is. Or simply: INSTALL.html so that people understand what it is.

It says just network.html if I remember well.

Then there is absolutely no point or link or reference to the installation instructions.

Each time I got a network I had to go to either duckduckgo search engine or to hyperbola.info website and then I tried with lynx to find installation instructions.

It is not straight, not quite clearly in open, it is in Wiki, but that is quite hard to find.

We have to put ourselves in the shoes of those in need of free software. Millions of people need free software.

Many of us live in a developed western countries.

Yet millions of people in need of this software live in South America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe.

There are millions of students that could advance their study, and that could progress faster with free software.

In those countries Internet is often non-existent, universities may be located in poor network areas, Internet is being fetched by using mobile phones.

So if there is a live distribution, such shall at least contain basic software, which really can fit onto any DVD, and that as such can be copied on the computer without using Internet. Upgrades could be fetched by using Internet.

And there shall be clear reference, link or file about installation. There shall be no need to go to Internet to install the software.

Description:

glom cannot run without libgda, so it should depend on libgda package

So avatar uploading is not working well, and picture is getting minimized to nothing.

The man page of pacman says:

DESCRIPTION
        Pacman is a package management utility that tracks installed packages on a Linux
        system

And I propose to change “Linux system” to “GNU/Linux system”.

xmind when installed is showing that “this version is not licensed”, so that cannot be right. Even though there is GPL license on Github, that vague information in the software can and is wrongly understood:

Further it is asking for license key to get the “Pro” version.

Thus xmind is pointing to proprietary software.

That means xmind shall be removed from Hyperbola immediately as such as it is now cannot be in the fully free GNU distribution.

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

we shall avoid vague terminology such as “open source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “open source”.

That is why I propose for all the packages here listed to change the term in their descriptions from “open source” to free (libre) software.

core/openssl 1.1.0.e-1 [installed]
    The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
extra/aiksaurus 1.2.1-5
    A cross-platform, open-source thesaurus
extra/assimp 3.3.1-1
    Portable Open Source library to import various well-known 3D model formats in an uniform manner
extra/cmake 3.8.0-1 [installed]
    A cross-platform open-source make system
extra/gstreamer 1.12.0-1 [installed]
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework core library
extra/java-openjfx 8.u121-1
    Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (open-source implementation of JavaFX)
extra/java-openjfx-doc 8.u121-1
    Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (open-source implementation of JavaFX) - documentation
extra/java-openjfx-src 8.u121-1
    Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (open-source implementation of JavaFX) - sources
extra/java-rhino 1.7.7.1-1.hyperbola1
    Open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java - JAR
extra/kdegames-kigo 17.04.0-1 (kde-applications kdegames)
    An open-source implementation of the popular Go game
extra/libgdiplus 4.2-1 [installed]
    An Open Source Implementation of the GDI+ API
extra/libical 2.0.0-2
    An open source reference implementation of the icalendar data type and serialization format
extra/liblouis 3.0.0-2
    Open-source braille translator and back-translator
extra/libofa 0.9.3-6 [installed]
    An open-source audio fingerprint by MusicIP
extra/libomxil-bellagio 0.9.3-1 [installed]
    An opensource implementation of the OpenMAX Integration Layer API
extra/libupnp 1.6.21-1 [installed]
    Portable Open Source UPnP Development Kit
extra/mlt 6.4.1-6 [installed]
    An open source multimedia framework
extra/mlt-python-bindings 6.4.1-6 [installed]
    An open source multimedia framework
extra/opencore-amr 0.1.5-1 [installed]
    Open source implementation of the Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) speech codec
extra/openjdk7-src 7.u131_2.6.9-1.hyperbola4
    OpenJDK Java 7 sources
extra/openjdk8-src 8.u121_3.3.0-1.hyperbola4
    OpenJDK Java 8 sources
extra/openjpeg 1.5.2-1 [installed]
    An open source JPEG 2000 codec
extra/openjpeg2 2.1.2-2 [installed]
    An open source JPEG 2000 codec, version 2.1.2
extra/openslp 2.0.0-2.hyperbola1
    Open-source implementation of Service Location Protocol, with OpenRC support
extra/openssl-1.0 1.0.2.k-3 [installed]
    The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
extra/rhino 1.7.7.1-1
    Open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java
extra/rhino-javadoc 1.7.7.1-1.hyperbola1
    Open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java - Javadoc
extra/sofia-sip 1.12.11-3
    An open-source SIP User-Agent library
extra/swt 4.6.2-3
    An open source widget toolkit for Java
extra/tomcat7 7.0.76-1
    Open source implementation of the Java Servlet 3.0 and JavaServer Pages 2.2 technologies
extra/tomcat8 8.0.42-1
    Open source implementation of the Java Servlet 3.1 and JavaServer Pages 2.3 technologies
extra/unixodbc 2.3.4-2
    ODBC is an open specification for providing application developers with a predictable API with which to access Data Sources
extra/wildmidi 0.4.0-1 [installed]
    Open Source MIDI Synthesizer
extra/x265 2.4-1 [installed]
    Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder
extra/xapian-core 1:1.4.2-1 [installed]
    Open source search engine library.
extra/xsd 4.0.0-2
    An open-source, cross-platform W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding compiler
extra/xvidcore 1.3.4-1 [installed]
    XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec
community/adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts 1.004-2
    Adobe Source Han Sans Subset OTF - Simplified Chinese OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts 1.004-2
    Adobe Source Han Sans Subset OTF - Japanese OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-sans-kr-fonts 1.004-2
    Adobe Source Han Sans Subset OTF - Korean OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts 1.004-2
    Adobe Source Han Sans - Pan-CJK OpenType/CFF Collection fonts
community/adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts 1.004-2
    Adobe Source Han Sans Subset OTF - Traditional Chinese OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-serif-cn-fonts 1.000-1
    Adobe Source Han Serif Subset OTF - Simplified Chinese OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-serif-jp-fonts 1.000-1
    Adobe Source Han Serif Subset OTF - Japanese OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-serif-kr-fonts 1.000-1
    Adobe Source Han Serif Subset OTF - Korean OpenType/CFF fonts
community/adobe-source-han-serif-otc-fonts 1.000-1
    Adobe Source Han Serif - Pan-CJK OpenType/CFF Collection fonts
community/adobe-source-han-serif-tw-fonts 1.000-1
    Adobe Source Han Serif Subset OTF - Traditional Chinese OpenType/CFF fonts
community/beignet 1.3.1-2
    An open source OpenCL implementation for Intel IvyBridge+ iGPUs
community/bzrtp 1.0.5-1
    Opensource implementation of ZRTP keys exchange protocol
community/cimg 1.7.1-1
    Open-source C++ toolkit for image processing
community/displaycal 3.2.4.0-1
    Open Source Display Calibration and Characterization powered by Argyll CMS (Formerly known as dispcalGUI)
community/dokuwiki 20170219_b-1
    Simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software
community/dsdp 5.8-1
    A free open source implementation of an interior-point method for semidefinite programming
community/dspam 3.10.2-14
    A scalable, open-source statistical anti-spam filter
community/fcitx-mozc 2.20.2673.102-2
    Fcitx Module of A Japanese Input Method for Chromium OS, Windows, Mac and Linux (the Open Source Edition of Google Japanese Input)
community/flightgear 2017.1.3-1
    An open-source, multi-platform flight simulator
community/flightgear-data 2017.1.3-1
    Base-Data for the opensource flight-simulator.
community/freehdl 0.0.8-8
    An open-source (C++ generating) VHDL simulator
community/freevo 1.9.0-14
    An open-source home theatre PC platform
community/gerbv 2.6.1-4
    An open source Gerber file (RS-274X only) viewer
community/glfw-wayland 3.2.1-1
    A free, open source, portable framework for graphical application development (wayland)
community/glfw-x11 3.2.1-1
    A free, open source, portable framework for graphical application development (x11)
community/goaccess 1.2-1
    An open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer
community/gocr 0.50-2
    Open-source character recognition (OCR)
community/hyperion 1.03.2-9
    An opensource 'AmbiLight' implementation
community/inn 2.6.1-1
    Complete open source Usenet system. De facto standard for handling news routing, news spool and serving the spool to customers.
community/irrlicht 1.8.4-1
    An open source high performance realtime 3D graphics engine.
community/irrlicht-docs 1.8.4-1
    An open source high performance realtime 3D graphics engine.
community/languagetool 3.7-1
    An open source language checker
community/libasl 0.1.7-3
    Free and open source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform (Advanced Simulation Library)
community/libdlna 0.2.4-16
    Open-source implementation of DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards
community/libnoise 1.0.0-4
    A portable, open-source, coherent noise-generating library for C++
community/libopenshot 0.1.4-1 [installed]
    A high quality, open-source video editing, animation, and playback library for C++, Python, and Ruby.
community/love 0.10.2-1
    An open-source 2D game engine which uses the versatile Lua scripting language to create dynamic gaming experiences
community/love08 0.8.0-2
    An open-source 2D game engine which uses the versatile Lua scripting language to create dynamic gaming experiences
community/luminancehdr 2.5.0-2
    Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging
community/lxlauncher 0.2.5-2 (lxde)
    Open source clone of the Asus launcher for EeePC
community/lxlauncher-gtk3 0.2.5-2 (lxde-gtk3)
    Open source clone of the Asus launcher for EeePC (GTK+ 3 version)
community/manaplus 1.7.4.15-1
    Free OpenSource 2D MMORPG client for Evol Online, The mana world and similar servers
community/mathjax 2.7.1-1
    An open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers
community/mediaproxy 2.6.1-2
    Open-source media proxy for OpenSER
community/metasploit 4.13.22-1
    Advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code
community/mixxx 2.0.0-8
    Free, open source software for digital DJ'ing.
community/mongodb 3.4.3-1
    A high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database
community/mosquitto 1.4.11-5
    An Open Source MQTT v3.1/v3.1.1 Broker
community/obs-studio 18.0.2-1
    Free, open source software for live streaming and recording
community/ode 0.14-1
    An open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics
community/opendkim 2.10.3-4
    An open source implementation of the DKIM sender authentication system. Based on a fork of dkim-milter.
community/opendmarc 1.3.2-1
    Free open source software implementation of the DMARC specification
community/openra 20170421-1
    An open-source implementation of the Red Alert engine using .NET/Mono and OpenGL
community/openscenegraph 3.4.0-5
    An Open Source, high performance real-time graphics toolkit
community/opensips 2.2.3-1
    An Open Source SIP Server able to act as a SIP proxy, registrar, location server, redirect server ...
community/opensubdiv 3.1.1-1 [installed]
    An Open-Source subdivision surface library
community/pdfsam 3.3.0-1
    A free open source tool to split and merge pdf documents
community/pokerth 1.1.1-17
    Open source Texas Hold'em Poker simulator
community/polymake 3.1-1
    Open source software for research in polyhedral geometry
community/portaudio 190600_20161030-1 [installed]
    A free, cross-platform, open source, audio I/O library.
community/pymol 1.8.6.0-2
    Molecular visualization system on an Open Source foundation
community/python-scipy 0.19.0-1
    SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
community/python-tornado 4.5.1-1
    open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools
community/python2-scipy 0.19.0-1
    SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
community/python2-tornado 4.5.1-1
    open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools
community/radare2 1.4.0-1
    Open-source tools to disasm, debug, analyze and manipulate binary files
community/rdesktop 1.8.3-3
    An open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services
community/repo 1.12.37-1
    The Multiple Git Repository Tool from the Android Open Source Project
community/simgear 2017.1.3-1
    A set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications.
community/slrn 1.0.3-2
    An open source text-based news client
community/stone-soup 0.19.5-1
    Open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting
community/sysdig 0.15.1-2
    Open source system-level exploration and troubleshooting tool
community/tkabber 1.1.2-1
    Tkabber is an open source Jabber client, written in Tcl/Tk.
community/topbeat 1.3.1-1
    Open source server monitoring agent that stores metrics in Elasticsearch
community/ttf-overpass 2.1-2
    An open source font family inspired by Highway Gothic esp. suited for signs, lettering and web sites
community/unrealircd 4.0.11-2
    Open Source IRC Server
community/wiredtiger 2.9.1-1
    High performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, Open Source extensible platform for data management
community/xwax 1.6-1
    Open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux.
community/zynaddsubfx 3.0.1-1
    Opensource software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments.

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Description: FreeCAD may be free software, yet its features are steering users towards non-free software. It is asking for Teigha File Converter which is proprietary software, and it is asking for the path in order to enable the option import/export.

Additional info:

* package version: community/freecad 0.16-9

Steps to reproduce:

After attempt to open the DWF/DXF file FreeCad is to request the Teigha File Converter which is proprietary software.

Under the menu Edit → Preferences → Import/Export → DWG, one can see the request to enter the path to Teigha File Converter.

Teigha File Converter with proprietary license

FreeCAD requesting the path to Teigha File Converter

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

extra/libspnav 0.2.3-1 [installed]
    Alternative to the proprietary 3Dconnexion device driver and SDK for their 3D input devices

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

community/classpath 0.99-3
    A free replacement for Sun's proprietary core Java class libraries.

My suggestion is to describe what software does, and to remove that it is free replacement for proprietary code, as it gives some kind of legitimacy to proprietary software.

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

extra/mp3wrap 0.5-4
     Tool for wrapping mp3 files. A free independent alternative to AlbumWrap

Description is pointing to proprietary software, it should not, it shall be changed.

It is not alternative to proprietary, and description shall be changed. It gives some kind of legitimacy to proprietary software.

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

community/pinta 1.6-2 [installed]
     Drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It's goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users

I am not quite sure what the policy is in Hyperbola on this one. I am referring to the reference to the proprietary software Paint.NET. That is for me steering users to verify what is Paint.NET – we shall not be doing it. It should be removed from description.

I am fine if authors have in documentation something explaining how they started software project. But I am not fine in descriptions which are public and accessible on Internet to have such references to illegitimate proprietary software.

Just to clarify, the word “alternative” is just fine in this description and need not be removed.

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

extra/breeze 5.9.5-1 (plasma)
    Artwork, styles and assets for the Breeze visual style for the Plasma Desktop

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

extra/knewstuff 5.33.0-1 (kf5)
    Support for downloading application assets from the network

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

extra/kpackage 5.33.0-1 (kf5)
    Framework that lets applications manage user installable packages of non-binary assets

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

community/openmw 0.41.0-3.hyperbola1
    A libre engine reimplementation for Morrowind-based role-playing games, without wizard installation support to install nonfree assets from Morrowind to run Morrowind

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

community/retroarch-assets-xmb 401-1 (libretro)
    XMB menu assets for RetroArch

Why not use “elements” instead?

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

community/warsow-data 2.1.2-1.hyperbola2
    Free online multiplayer competitive FPS based on the Qfusion engine (data files), without nonfree assets

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

The expression “BSD-style license” leads to confusion because it lumps together licenses that have important differences. For instance, the original BSD license with the advertising clause is incompatible with the GNU General Public License, but the revised BSD license is compatible with the GPL.

To avoid confusion, it is best to name the specific license in question and avoid the vague term “BSD-style.”

community/libsmf 1.3-5
    A BSD-licensed C library for handling SMF ("*.mid") files.

extra/gfbgraph 0.2.3+10+gbc03c1f-1
    GLib/GObject wrapper for the Facebook Graph API

In my opinion this software is for exclusive use of proprietary network. This software shall be removed from Hyperbola.

Description:

In my opinion, this software shall be either removed, or features disabled to access either Google or Facebook, as those are proprietary networks.

Further, using those proprietary networks is steering users towards non-free software, directly, or indirectly, as many times Javascript need to be handled that is proprietary.

extra/kaccounts-integration 17.04.0-1 (kde-applications kdenetwork)
    Small system to administer web accounts for the sites and services across the KDE desktop, including: Google, Facebook, Owncloud, IMAP, Jabber and others

See:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so.