11 <p>In respect to user freedoms, privacy, liberty, quality, mental health and world peace we create software according to these guidelines.</p> |
11 <p>In respect to user freedoms, privacy, liberty, quality, mental health and world peace we create software according to these guidelines.</p> |
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13 <h2>Free software</h2> |
13 <h2>Free software</h2> |
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15 <ul> |
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16 <li>user has freedoms</li> |
16 <li>Every piece of Sane software is also <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free software</a>.</li> |
17 <li>user controls his/her computer and software and owns the data</li> |
17 <li>The user has freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and change it (i.e. has access to the source code under a free software license) and to distribute modified or unmodified copies.</li> |
18 <li>non-free software can not be trusted </li> |
18 <li>The user controls his/her computer and software and owns the data.</li> |
19 <li>must be buildable using free software toolchain (like GNU/Linux + GCC or OpenJDK etc.)</li> |
19 <li>Non-free software can not be trusted.</li> |
20 <li>should not promote non-free (proprietary) software or services</li> |
20 <li>Must be buildable using free software toolchain (like GNU/Linux + GCC or OpenJDK etc.).</li> |
21 <li>copyleft licenses (like GNU GPL or GNU Affero GPL) are recommended because they guarantee software freedoms to every single end-user and prevent possibility that freedom vanishes somewhere in the distribution chain and the user can't benefit from the free software albeit the software is build on originally free source code</li> |
21 <li>Should not promote non-free (proprietary) software or services.</li> |
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22 <li>Copyleft licenses (like GNU GPL or GNU Affero GPL) are strongly recommended because they guarantee software freedoms to every single end-user and prevent possibility that freedom vanishes somewhere in the distribution chain and the user can't benefit from the free software albeit the software is build on originally free source code.</li> |
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23 <li>If the software is distributed with a hardware, the hardware must support instalation of independently built software without any restrictions or requirements (e.g. digital signature from the original author).</li> |
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24 </ul> |
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24 <h2>Documented</h2> |
26 <h2>Documented</h2> |
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26 <li>at least basic documentation must be released under a free license (GNU FDL is recommended)</li> |
28 <li>at least basic documentation must be released under a free license (GNU FDL is recommended)</li> |