This. Freedom is part of the quality of a program.

This is exactly what it does. It steals code and does not abide by it’s license.

Often it also removes or changes the license/attribution.

Which is funny because the only thing really that I see people say that because is the fact that you can’t remove freedoms from the program then pass it onto users.

The GPL keeps software free forever. It’s more free overall.

The likes of BSD are pushover licenses. They’ll let you strip the freedom from them, but that results in the end users getting less or no freedom.

On topic of the original post, I actually make an effort to use more GNU software. I love it, I love the software, I love the philosophy. I want more of that.

You love to see it.

Okay, I get it. It makes a lot more sense now. Honestly your first comment was word salad.

It has it as a setting. It should be default though

???

I’d suggest Debian Stable with KDE Plasma.

Debian is the grandparent of most distros today, instructions for it are everywhere, and it’s got a large userbase.

Yeah no. Don’t suggest advanced distros for beginners.

Yeah I know that’s allowed under the GPL, but you mentioned them “choosing to keep a FOSS version”, which if they didn’t do that would mean relicensing. It’s still FOSS here.

Obviously these phones aren’t as good as megacorp-backed Androids yet, they’re much newer and the software is being developed by the community for fucks sake. And the manufacturers haven’t had so many design revisions to recognise and fix all the issues.

They’re development/early adopter devices. And the killswitches aren’t pointless, because while you can enable airplane mode, that’s a software mechanism which can be maliciously changed, either by the manufacturer or an attacker. A kill switch will 100% cut you off.

Aren’t there outside contributors? How can they relicense it without their permission?

Very nice!

To be fair, if the free software “hardliners” like the FSF soften their stance, then that “hardline” just shifts. If nobody maintains that stance the strongest libre software principles will become weaker, if that makes sense.

The FSF is very useful for preventing that, even if they’re not quite as big as softer movements like “Open Source”

So you’re suggesting they remove or tag 99% of projects from the directory because you don’t like where they put their source code? Seriously?

If you really don’t like it, use the git command line to access it… It’s just the server where the code is hosted…

And no, you don’t need an access token to clone a repo.

Yes these sites are bad, no it doesn’t warrant tarring the projects hosted on them.