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Registration Date: Mon 17 Feb 2003 09:22:36 PM UTC
License: GNU Free Documentation License
Development Status: 6 - Mature
posted by toby, Wed 25 Oct 2006 03:40:13 PM UTC - 0 replies
I added a new task to the tasklist to improve the Free documentation for MySQL. The MySQL relational database is Free Software, but the documentation provided by MySQL AB is non-Free. There's a project to document MySQL at WikiBooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MySQL) and we encourage anyone that's interested in MySQL (or SQL in general) to contribute.
posted by toby, Mon 03 Jul 2006 02:27:27 PM UTC - 3 replies
At rms' request I added a tasklist item asking for volunteers to work on a Free alternative to the proprietary "Google Earth" client. If you're interested in this project please let -unavailable- know.
posted by toby, Fri 31 Mar 2006 04:37:29 PM UTC - 0 replies
Both Harbour (http://www.harbour-project.org/) and Clip (http://www.itk.ru/english/index.shtml) seem to be humming along nicely, so people who need to run xBase/Clipper programs and want to use Free Software should be able to do so. I'm closing the Task List entry for xBase, if someone wants to work on it they could work on either of those projects.
posted by toby, Fri 31 Mar 2006 04:25:29 PM UTC - 1 reply
Based on a volunteer query I looked into current support for the proprietary "Real Audio" format in Free Software. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealAudio) at least one GPL program (MPlayer) is capable of playing many "Real Audio" files, so I'm going to close this item and recommend that if volunteers are interested in helping GNU with media they should help with the GNASH project (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) instead.
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