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From @coderobe :

what do you think about excluding uses-nonfree too, because i think it's only used when:

• some (potentially optional) dependencies are nonfree, which would already turn up in our list
• it is referring to, linking to, or endorsing problematic packages
• it integrates with problematic packages (can still be free!)

take mesa for example, the "issues" parabola identified are that it's recommending optional problematic software, but on its own mesa is licensed under MIT

CDDL is a free licence, recognised as such by the FSF: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:CDDL-1.0 . Yes, some opine that it's incompatible with the GPL, but it shouldn't be tagged as 'nonfree'.

by @ben01189998819991197253
If we're going to print out everything as a table, it would be nice to be able to sort the results by column using command-line flags. -s for sorting by status, --name for sorting by name, etc.

My idea is to try to keep simple first. Program with no arguments shows only nonfree. Program with --full argument shows all. Then add sort etc

Add a feature to print the libre equivalents for each programs. These can either be obtain by the second column of blacklist.txt or we need to figure how Parabola queries the arch repos to get the replacement packages exactly.

When executing the script it is currently saying that there are 55 proprietary packages but the table only shows a total of 16 packages

currently, the package file is being detected as iscan because parabola's blacklist description for iscan contains the word file

I have an error running $ python absolutely_proprietary/init.py:
Retrieving local packages (including AUR)... Downloading https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/plain/blacklist.txt Downloading https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/plain/aur-blacklist.txt Comparing local packages to remote... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/arthur/Downloads/absolutely-proprietary/absolutely_proprietary/__init__.py", line 126, in <module> reason = ((line.split(':')[4]).split(']')[0]).strip().replace('[', '') IndexError: list index out of range

It would be nice to create a PKGBUILD and deploy the app on AUR. For now the script install works, but it's not ideal as it contains security risks.

The program tell me i have 39 unfree, but only 4 are shown in the table

I installed the AUR package for Absolutely Proprietary. Running absolutely-proprietary gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/absolutely-proprietary", line 9, in <module>
    for entry_point in distribution('absolutely-proprietary==1.0.0').entry_points:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/metadata.py", line 504, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/metadata.py", line 177, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: absolutely-proprietary==1.0.0

Just wanted to say, if you provide some description in the issues, we (I) might be able to help better ;)

Hello,

when I run the program, it says I have 38 non-free packages installed, but only 5 of them are displayed.

$ absolutely-proprietary 
Retrieving local packages (including AUR)...
Downloading https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/plain/blacklist.txt
Downloading https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/plain/aur-blacklist.txt
Comparing local packages to remote...
=============================================
38 ABSOLUTELY PROPRIETARY PACKAGES INSTALLED
=============================================

Your GNU/Linux is infected with 38 proprietary packages out of 1331 total installed.
Your Stallman Freedom Index is 97.15

+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Name                  | Status  | Libre Alternatives          | Description                                                               |
+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| amd-ucode             | nonfree |                             | no modification, use restrictions                                         |
+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| libunrar              | nonfree |                             | part of nonfree unrar, Issue442                                           |
+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| linux-firmware        | nonfree | linux-libre-firmware        | nonfree blobs                                                             |
|                       |         | fsf                         |                                                                           |
|                       |         | linux-firmware              |                                                                           |
+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| linux-firmware-whence | nonfree | linux-libre-firmware-whence | nonfree blobs                                                             |
|                       |         | fsf                         |                                                                           |
|                       |         | linux-firmware              |                                                                           |
+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| nmap                  | nonfree |                             | the FSF considers the v7.9x license to be non-free - however, the previous|
+-----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

See #14

Hello, I use Parabola GNU/Linux. I thought I give it a try just to get great score (like 100% free). So when I ran the program I got this list of non free packages:

|Name|Status|Libre Alternatives|Description| |---|---|---|---| |clamav|semifree|clamav|has nonfree unrar support for RAR into libclamunrar| |hexchat|uses-nonfree|hexchat|Hard-codes the firefox command in some menus| |kio|uses-nonfree|kio<br>parabola<br>1066|has non-privacy search engines by default| |licenses|uses-nonfree|licenses|Remove non-free CC -NC and -ND licenses (also add WTFPL)| |midori|uses-nonfree|midori|has non-privacy search engines| |okular|semifree|okular<br>parabola<br>1067|has copy-protection anti-feature turn on by default| |openexr|semifree|openexr<br>parabola<br>374|includes embedded nonfree fonts in the documentation| |ruby|semifree|ruby<br>parabola<br>674|json module has nonfree CVTUTF code; replace with pure Ruby implementation| |sdl|semifree|sdl|contains a source file that doesn't mention modification| |signon-ui|uses-nonfree|signon-ui<br>parabola<br>2603|depends on qt5-webengine| |texlive-core|semifree|texlive-core|some nonfree packages| |texlive-fontsextra|semifree|texlive-fontsextra|some nonfree packages| |texlive-latexextra|semifree|texlive-latexextra|some nonfree packages| |unzip|semifree|unzip|contains a source file that doesn't mention modification| |xarchiver|uses-nonfree|xarchiver|recommends nonfree unrar| |xmms2|uses-nonfree|xmms2<br>parabola<br>841|depends and recommends nonfree mac installation| |xscreensaver|semifree|xscreensaver<br>parabola<br>131|dmsc.asm file don't have source code supplied|

It's right that these packages are non free/semi-free but parabola has a [libre] repo which fixes these issues and then distribute these packages. So they are not really proprietary anymore.

Another problem/bug I noticed when I installed the program from AUR and then ran it. The list of packages(the pretty tabular box) were empty every time though it'd show the number of "non-free" packages.

It would be nice to print the results nicely in a table-like style with these 4 columns:
Package, Status, Description, Libre Alternative

I'm trying to keep this module-free, so bonus points for not using modules!

The alternatives recommend the very same packages for some of the packages, this is probably related to #11

from @abbidabbi:

why are you reading blacklist.txt again and again for each line of the contents of the installed.txt file? Does python cache filesystem I/O by default? It would look much clearer if you'd read the file just once:

Also, writing each line of matched proprietary packages separately to disgusting.txt doesn't look like a good idea and causes many unnecessary write operations: