FSD meeting recap 2022-11-25
Every week, free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on Libera.Chat to help improve the FSD, which is a catalog of useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems (not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday, November 25, 2022 meeting, where we saw a one new program added and two entries updated. We also discussed and learned what it could mean for a free program to depend on a platform like Docker. If a program requires Docker in order to be available, it runs the danger of introducing difficult to detect nonfree dependencies, so we must be cautious when we discover a Docker configuration file or the prerequisite of Docker to run an otherwise free program.
New programs approved with licensing check:
- Movim is a distributed social network built on top of XMPP
Programs with version bumps or minor edits:
- Fases are simple coreutils for a fully functional UNIX-like system
- Ccache, a compiler cache, received a version bump.
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