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Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

I just read this story about Parabola (yet another linux distro). It believes that everything must be free and open source. Thus no binary ATI or nVidia drivers, no JDK, no Flash, on MP3 support etc etc...

The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very strangely, Free Pascal is in that list???? Anybody know why Free Pascal isn't considered free and open source?

http://www.osnews.com/story/25576/Parabola_GNU_Linux_Freedom_Packaged

(second column, third from the top)

Regards,   - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net

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Jonas Maebe
to Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote
The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very strangely, Free Pascal is in that list?

http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt

-> freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=20200 for the full story (it's less spectacular than that message may suggest at first sight). It has been resolved in FPC 2.6.0, so if anyone tells them they'll presumably include it.

Jonas

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
to Jonas Maebe: http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt -> freepascal::includes proprietary…
Jonas Maebe wrote 10 lines
On 06 Feb 2012, at 15:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very > strangely, Free Pascal is in that list? http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt -> freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics See http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=20200 for the full story (it's less spectacular than that message may suggest at first sight). It has been resolved in FPC 2.6.0, so if anyone tells them they'll presumably include it.

Sounds like it came out of "Project Fahrenheit" which was supposed to be a collaborative effort between SGI and MS. IIRC SGI eventually disposed of the documentation on the bonfire at a beach party.

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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Jonas Maebe
to Martin Schreiber: glu.pp still has the old header. Martin
Martin Schreiber wrote 12 lines
On Monday, 6. February 2012 15.47:00 Jonas Maebe wrote: > -> freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics > > See http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=20200 > for > the full story (it's less spectacular than that message may suggest > at > first sight). It has been resolved in FPC 2.6.0, so if anyone tells > them > they'll presumably include it. > glu.pp still has the old header.

You're right. I'll create a version based on a clean header some time next week if no one else does so before that (which would be very much appreciated!). A clean version of the header can be found at http://dev.lemote.com/files/download/Mesa-7.2/include/GL/glu.h

Jonas

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