Packages

Description:

extra/xorg-xev 1.2.2-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
    Print contents of X events

Description is vague because of the word “content”. Why not say “X events information”. At least description shall be changed which is very public. For man page I am not sure.

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

A Syriac typeface family series of Beth Mardutho’s Meltho is considered as non-libre/free because a licence forbids to modify[1], and should be removed immediately.

[1]: https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-misc-meltho/raw/master/license.txt

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.

Two formats (including HTML and PHP) are provided to run semi-libre/free web browser Mozilla Firefox in the original code base, but it currently got blacklisted due to numerous branding, security and privacy issues, and replaced by the Hyperbola Iceweasel-UXP. To replace existing strings at the web section in xferc.in:

html = "iceweasel-uxp,iceweasel-uxp,<txteditor>;Hyper Text;html_32x32.png;html_16x16.png;;"
htm = "iceweasel-uxp,iceweasel-uxp,<txteditor>;Hyper Text;html_32x32.png;html_16x16.png;;"
php = "iceweasel-uxp,iceweasel-uxp,<txteditor>;PHP Source;html_32x32.png;html_16x16.png;;"

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 package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/xapian-core 1:1.4.2-1
    Open source search engine library.

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”.

eg.

Free software search engine library.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/x265 2.4-1
    Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder

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”.

eg.

Free Software H265/HEVC video encoder

Description:

community/wxcam 1.1-9
     Webcam application for linux

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

Description:

community/wireshark-qt 2.2.6-1
     a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - Qt frontend

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

Description:

community/wireshark-gtk 2.2.6-1
     a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - GTK frontend

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

Please remove references to proprietary software.

Description:

community/wireshark-cli 2.2.6-1
     a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - CLI version

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

I would remove Unix and Windows from description as those words steer users towards non-free proprietary software.

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”.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

community/wiredtiger 2.9.1-1
    High performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, Open Source extensible platform for data management

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”.

eg.

High performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, Free Software extensible platform for data management

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/wildmidi 0.4.0-1
    Open Source MIDI Synthesizer

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”.

eg.

Free Software MIDI Synthesizer

Description:

extra/webkitgtk 2.4.11-6.hyperbola1
    Legacy Web content engine for GTK+ 3, without geoclue2 support

The description is vague. There is not even need to use “content” here. Web engine should be very clear. “Content” alone does not make sense.

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

Description:

extra/webkit2gtk 2.16.1-3.hyperbola1 [installed]
    GTK+ Web content engine library, without geoclue2 support

The description is vague as it is using “content” in description. Why not say “elements” or something more descriptive.

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

Description:

community/webfs 1.21-13
    Simple and instant http server for mostly static content.

Description is vague because of the word “content”. Why not simply say “files” instead and be more specific.

Even empty files without data inside can be served.

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

Warsow contains a library called steamlib which is built from the source. It’s useful only for Steam support which is nonfree software.

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

The package contains nonfree assets:
data0_000_nonfree_21.pk3
data0_000_nonfree_21pure.pk3
tex_000_nonfree.pk3

The package contains nonfree car and track models

core/util-linux 2.29.2-2.hyperbola2 (base base-devel) [installed]
     Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux, with eudev and libeudev support

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

Description is referring to operating system, and not to the kernel itself (Linux). It shall be amended.

Description:

community/ussp-push 0.11-6
     OBEX object pusher for Linux

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

Description:

community/usb_modeswitch 2.5.0-1
     Activating switchable USB devices on Linux.

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

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

community/unrealircd 4.0.11-2
    Open Source IRC Server

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”.

eg.

Free Software IRC Server