Packages

Description:

community/openstreetmap-map-icons-svn 31588-1 [installed]
    A set of public domain licensed map icons for general OSM use

It is questionable if it is “Licensed” or dedicated.

See the file:
/usr/share/licenses/openstreetmap-map-icons/svg-twotone/LICENSE.txt

it does not matter if the file is named “LICENSE”, it could be also named anyhow else.

There must be reason why the organization Creative Commons is not using the word “License” in that text, and that is why I propose to simply say in description:

    A set of public domain map icons for general OSM use

community/autoconf-archive 1:2017.03.21-1
    A collection of freely re-usable Autoconf macros

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FreelyAvailable

Don’t use “freely available software” as a synonym for “free software.” The terms are not equivalent. Software is “freely available” if anyone can easily get a copy. “Free software” is defined in terms of the freedom of users that have a copy of it. These are answers to different questions.

community/python-biopython 1.69-1
    Freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FreelyAvailable

Don’t use “freely available software” as a synonym for “free software.” The terms are not equivalent. Software is “freely available” if anyone can easily get a copy. “Free software” is defined in terms of the freedom of users that have a copy of it. These are answers to different questions.

community/python2-biopython 1.69-1
    Freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FreelyAvailable

Don’t use “freely available software” as a synonym for “free software.” The terms are not equivalent. Software is “freely available” if anyone can easily get a copy. “Free software” is defined in terms of the freedom of users that have a copy of it. These are answers to different questions.

core/linux-atm 2.5.2-4
     Drivers and tools to support ATM networking under Linux.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Let us not make it vague. If it refers to kernel, then let us say “Linux kernel”. If it refers to operating system, let us say so.

In general, packages referring to kernel as Linux which is correct, I am leaving alone and will not report it here. Only those referring to operating system name or when stated in vague manner.

core/man-pages 4.11-1 (base)
     Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Instead I propose to say “Operating system manual pages”

core/net-tools 1.60.20160710git-1
     Configuration tools for Linux networking

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-de 1.22-1
     German Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-ru 4.08_2329_2272_20170321-2
     Russian Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-zh_cn 1.6.3.1-1
     Simplified Chinese Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-zh_tw 1.6.3.1-1
     Traditional Chinese Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

Private Browsing with Tracking Protection

When you browse in a Private Window, Firefox does not save:

  visited pages
  cookies
  searches
  temporary files

Firefox will save your:

  bookmarks
  downloads

Private Browsing doesn’t make you anonymous on the Internet. Your employer or Internet service provider can still know what page you visit.
Tracking Protection

Some websites use trackers that can monitor your activity across the Internet. With Tracking Protection Firefox will block many trackers that can collect information about your browsing behavior.

Learn more about Private Browsing.

Firefox is named 3 times.
Private Browsing link is broken

Additional info:
* package version(s) : 52.9.0_20180601-3

Steps to reproduce: Open Private Browsing

Description:

xdg-utils package contains some non-free applications

Additional info:

$ pacman -Si xdg-utils
Repositorio               : extra
Nombre                    : xdg-utils
Versión                   : 1.1.1-5
Descripción               : Command line tools that assist applications with a variety of
                            desktop integration tasks
Arquitectura              : any
URL                       : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/
Licencias                 : MIT
Grupos                    : Nada
Provee                    : Nada
Depende de                : sh  xorg-xset
Dependencias opcionales   : kde-cli-tools: for KDE Plasma5 support in xdg-open
                            exo: for Xfce support in xdg-open
                            xorg-xprop: for Xfce support in xdg-open
                            pcmanfm: for LXDE support in xdg-open
                            perl-file-mimeinfo: for generic support in xdg-open
                            perl-net-dbus: Perl extension to dbus used in xdg-screensaver
                            perl-x11-protocol: Perl X11 protocol used in xdg-screensaver
En conflicto con          : Nada
Remplaza a                : Nada
Tamaño de la descarga     : 54,40 KiB
Tamaño de la instalación  : 303,00 KiB
Encargado                 : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Fecha de creación         : vie 20 ene 2017 16:12:57 -05
Validado por              : Suma MD5  Suma SHA-256  Firma

Steps to reproduce:

$ cat /usr/bin/xdg-open | grep 'chromium'

BROWSER=x-www-browser:firefox:iceweasel:seamonkey:mozilla:epiphany:konqueror:chromium:google-chrome:$BROWSER

This is the last addon I absolutely would need,

It is an all purpose blocker not just for ads.

I would want this to be supported indefinitely in the sense of, whenever a new version comes out, you add the needed fixes they add to the webext one to the legacy version.

This is the last cruical one I need.

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.

texmacs 
ERROR: Unbound variable: eval-when

it cannot start

community/wireshark-cli 2.2.6-1
    a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - CLI version
community/wireshark-common 2.2.6-1
    Common files used by wireshark-gtk and wireshark-qt
community/wireshark-gtk 2.2.6-1
    a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - GTK frontend
community/wireshark-qt 2.2.6-1
    a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - Qt frontend

It’s better to change to a more neutral description such as “a cross-platform network protocol analyzer - CLI/GTK/Qt version”.

community/keepass 2.35-2
    A easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and mobile
    devices.

Better to change to something like “A cross-platform password manager supporting mobile devices”.

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