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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 16:20:24 JST SuperDicq

   https://writefreesoftware.org/Hmm a quite extensive but also very generic looking free software resource that somehow explicitly avoids any mention the FSF, the GNU Project or Richard Stallman.
   
   I wonder who could be behind this...
   
   Oh it's Drew DeVault.

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     roland (roland@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 18:50:32 JST roland

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     @SuperDicq drewheads, lock in.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:35:19 JST 翠星石

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     @eliseo01 @SuperDicq Yes, Drew Devault has attacked Stallman multiple times, even though what he has written and done himself is much worse than anything rms has ever done; https://sizeof.cat/project/the-devault-report/ (as you can see, there is no evidence that Drew is pedophile, but there is quite substantial evidence he is into "loli art").
     
     Drew's immoral actions aren't even a past thing either - he's currently attacking people with proprietary software, as if you want to host a repo on "sourcehut", in most cases you must run proprietary Stripe JavaScript to make a credit card payment (although at the moment there are exceptions for some kinds of projects (that will eventually be taken away) and he has previously accepted alternative payment methods (but it doesn't seem he does so anymore)).
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:35:21 JST eliseo

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     I only vaguely recall a few details about this guy. Was he the same guy that incessantly harassed Stallman and accused him of being a pedophile and a misogynist while being an actual pedophile himself?
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:41:04 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org Don't forget that Drew also simply just removes repos form Sourcehut that he doesn't like.
     
     He actually removed GNU Boot from Sourcehut for being a "hate fork" or something like that.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:42:56 JST 翠星石

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     @eliseo01 @SuperDicq Do you know of any studies or decent reviews that gives confirmation to such theory?
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:42:57 JST eliseo

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     @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq
     
     Arguably, someone that actively seeks and enjoys erotic fictional depictions of minors can be considered a deviant chronophile.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:47:36 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @eliseo01 While he should not be required to host repositories (for example, it would be fair for him to decline to host proprietary software projects and remove them, if he finds them if the being proprietary part isn't simply a mistake that is/will be fixed).
     
     Alas, he's happy to host proprietary software and it seems he has only removed free software projects he doesn't like (some for being too free like GNUboot).
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:48:05 JST eliseo

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     Which is ironic, as GNUboot is a reponse to the actual hate fork that Leah started with an anti-GNU and anti-FSF campaign after openly and aggressively supporting proprietary software being included into "Libre"boot. You can see Leah every now and then on Trisquel forums under alts bashing at people that recommend GNUboot, so it seems it was successful at one of its missions, which was to give the middle finger to Leah's hateful and authoritarian stance against GNU and the FSF.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:49:04 JST 翠星石

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     @eliseo01 @SuperDicq There was no mission to give any "middle fingers" - the only mission is to be 100% free software, which stands against proprietary software.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:51:58 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org I personally don't really like criticizing Drew on which fictional genres of pornography he's into.
     
     I don't consider lolicon material harmful, especially when compared to the other actual harmful things he's done to actual people, such as Stallman and the free software movement as a whole.
     
     I also think it would be very hypocritical to criticize him on this thing alone. As for example I am a pacifist who enjoys fiction that contains violence.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:53:11 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Recommending Libreboot on the Trisquel forums would actually be against what Trisquel stands for as a FSF endorsed project while Libreboot is proprietary now.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:55:47 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I'm pretty sure the opposite is true and many studies have proven that when you have a fictional and developed brain you should be able to distinguish fiction from reality.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:55:49 JST eliseo

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     @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq
     
     Merely observational thesis, I'm sure that with due time the DSM will investigate the correlation between them and will reach a conclusion that will probably be closely related to mine.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 19:57:58 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org Indeed, I agree, there was no other goal. This is what free software people do. As soon as you start adding proprietary stuff to your repository we will fork and make a free version.
     
     There is no other motive other than keeping free software free.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:00:12 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Killing people and manufacturing weapons is good actuallyVery cringe, how can you be opposed to pacifism?

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:00:14 JST eliseo

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     > As for example I am a pacifist
     
     It's amazing that every single day I happen to see something you say when I log here, you happen to say more and more things that make me reconsider if I should really be following someone with your mindset.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:05:01 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I don't think simply wishing for Drew to be blindly cancelled and wiped from history instead is good either.
     
     It's fighting fire with fire.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:05:03 JST eliseo

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     > I personally don’t really like criticizing Drew on which fictional genres of pornography he’s into.
     
     Nobody was bashing him specifically for his kinks or sexual deviancy, rather criticizing his sheer and absolute hypocrisy, because it shows he doesn't care about whether Stallman did something wrong or not, he just blindly hates him and wants him cancelled and his legacy wiped from history.
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:09:20 JST eliseo

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     How do you deal with saboteurs then? You try to politely explain to them why they're wrong and expect to convince them to stop? The way I see it is that many saboteurs rely on deception and lies or half-truths to be successful, so upholding the truth, exposing them and accusing them of being malicious is the right course of action. Reasoning is reserved for people that have the will to be reasonable, saboteurs such as Drew Devault do not care about reason or truth.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:11:01 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com It's nearly impossible to convince people like Drew themselves, but you can convince everyone else that people Drew are harmful to the movement.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:16:11 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I believe the ones who are willing to use violence to defend "our country's values" or whatever are the real useful idiots.
     
     Flags and borders aren't real, we just made them up.
     
     Offering your life in exchange for them is about the stupidest thing you can do.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:16:12 JST eliseo

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     @SuperDicq @Suiseiseki
     
     You, as many libshits out there seem to conflate being peaceful with being a pacifist. Pacifists are tools, useful idiots from the status-quo that preach blind and mindless rejection of violence fueled by social trauma going back to the Vietnam War. Peaceful people on the other hand acknowledges the value of civility and co-existence in society, but will not hesitate to use violence in any form or through any means to defend themselves and that which they love and value.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:18:59 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I don't frequent the Trisquel forums so I am not aware of this.
     
     If I were a moderator of the forums I don't think I would remove Leah's comments. Instead with proper replies under them they could serve as a good example for people to read why Leah is wrong.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:19:01 JST eliseo

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     That didn't stop Leah from incessantly recommending it under real name or alts otherwise, maybe the staff on Trisquel is too lax, or maybe they know it's bait and that Leah will not convince anyone in there from using it, specially when the thread is usually met with a couple replies exposing the truth about the whole situation.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:20:25 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @eliseo01 I would defend the GNU state with nuclear force myself if I could tbh.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:25:57 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com If you want to go the anarchism route that's fine too. I don't support violent anarchism either. Violence is not a good way to convince people of anarchism. And it only further justifies all the violence the state takes against their perceived anarchist threats.
     
     The only way to end the cycle of violence is to not use violence.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:25:59 JST eliseo

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     @SuperDicq @Suiseiseki
     
     Nobody mentioned nationalism nor patriotism in any way, shape or form, you're building a strawman of what I said. If you took a second to check my profile ever since we first interacted you'd know I'm very opinionated against nations and patriotism of any form. That being said, I hold nothing but respect for anarchist liberation movements.
     
     And I'm done discussing this with you, you're very clearly a self-labelled liberal with a twisted view of reality, there's nothing of value to learn nor discuss about this coming from you.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:28:22 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com There's a lot of things between being a victim and perpetrator.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:28:24 JST eliseo

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     Words of a victim.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:34:28 JST SuperDicq

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     @eliseo01@fe.disroot.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I am quite certain that can live my life to natural completion without having to use violence and I feel sad for those who feel like they have to use violence stay alive.

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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:34:29 JST eliseo

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     You'd very much rather be a victim, your ego and your deluded sense of justice are more important than your own life, that much is clear.
     
     Don't make me mute you, just drop it.
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     Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 00:35:35 JST Another Linux Walt Alt

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     @mangeurdenuage It is an issue, because it shows he's a hypocrite. If Mr Secretly-a-pervert can't prevent himself from making claims that someone else is a pervert (and should be kicked out of the FOSS movement for it), he should be publicly shamed for his perversions as well as kicked out of the FOSS movement.
     
     People should be telling projects to move off of sourcehut or be excluded, simply because being on sr.ht supports Drew DeVault.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 00:35:36 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @eliseo01 @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq https://dmpwn.info/
     Being a lolicon isn't the issue imo, harassing someone to the death out of pure fictitious hate boner while they're themself into it is the epitome of hypocrisy (and insanity).
     So either drew is mentally broken, or he works for the corpos, or both.
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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 00:51:26 JST xianc78

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     @Suiseiseki @eliseo01 @SuperDicq It seems like it's better to use proprietary software than to ever touch the evil cryptocurrencies, in his eyes.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 00:51:26 JST 翠星石

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     @xianc78 @eliseo01 @SuperDicq He could just use CivicCRM and take credit card payment without requiring JavaScript, or re-use crowdsupplies free JavaScript re-implementation of the Stripe API, but he prefers to attack the user with proprietary software.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:21:56 JST 翠星石

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     @tribune @eliseo01 @SuperDicq I didn't write that - stop imagining things.
     
     The site accuses him of doing more than that - for example; "IUDs for fourteen-year-old girls"
     
     >than saying people who were raped are not victims but perpetrators and false accusers
     Stop lying - he never wrote that.
     
     https://stallmansupport.org/explaining-events-that-led-to-stallman-resignation-csail-emails.html
     
     A victim of Epstein advised a court that Epstein instructed her to "have Sex with Minsky", but Minsky either said no or she didn't get a chance to make the "offer" (his wife was there the whole time) - and later someone else proceeded to falsely accuse Minsky of rape.
     
     rms of course committed the "grave sin" of daring to defend his late friend from a false accusation on a private mailing list and of course some twisted individual decided to send his posts to a member of the microsoft "journalism" team, who jumped at the chance to misquote and defame him.
     
     As for Epstein - he clearly pointed out he was a serial rapist and he got a sentence so lenient that it was illegal, but somehow he defended Epstein?
     
     Meanwhile, Bill Gates partied with Epstein on multiple occasions and defended his behavior, but that's all okay isn't it?
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     𝅺 (tribune@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:21:57 JST 𝅺

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     @Suiseiseki @eliseo01 @SuperDicq it's so strange to me that you think "enjoying lolicon" (which is literally the only thing this site you linked accuses him of) is somehow "much worse" than saying people who were raped are not victims but perpetrators and false accusers
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     𝅺 (tribune@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:11:00 JST 𝅺

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     @Suiseiseki sorry, it was wrong of me to make a judgement on such little evidence. perhaps i was wrong about rms, i don't know yet. regarding iuds devault obv has an insane take, idk where he was going with that. i hope he has changed his mind in the past 11 years but i can't be certain. honestly, it terrifies me a little now that i fetched the original post and confirmed that context doesn't justify it
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     Shakil Akhtar 🇸🇦 🇵🇸 (shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:42:51 JST Shakil Akhtar 🇸🇦 🇵🇸

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     @Suiseiseki @eliseo01 @SuperDicq

     Alas, he's happy to host proprietary software

     If you don't mind, can you give some examples? With links, preferably.

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     @shakil_tcs @eliseo01 @SuperDicq sr.ht allows nonfree licenses and no license (as there is no policy against those); https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NoLicense
     
     You'll without a doubt find plenty of software under no license and some software under a proprietary license in the listing; https://sr.ht/projects?page=300 (I would be glad to find many examples for you, if the source tab didn't refuse to load without arbitrary JavaScript execution).
     
     I found one project with no license and that is therefore proprietary software (I would have found more for you if git clone wasn't so slow);
     https://sr.ht/~reddbear/latte/
     
     He also doesn't hesitate to host the nonfree "libre"boot project for example; https://sr.ht/~libreboot/lbmk/ (yes, rather than directly distribute the proprietary software, unfinished images are provided alongside with scripts that download and install proprietary software from another server - but distributing a script that installs proprietary software and instructing the user to run that script, is equivalent to distributing proprietary software personally).
     
     
     I also see many projects with a LICENSE file dumped in root, but no license headers and no readme note as to the license (it could be assumed that file is there as that's the license the project is under, or it could be just as readily assumed the file is just there to look nice or to apply to one file only).