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Adding a project to our lists

11 Aug 2020

If you have found a project that you want to add to our lists, you can learn how to do so with this guide: - email us at "hi at reverseeagle dot org", telling us about the project you'd like to add - Directly filing an issue to the relevant list at Codeberg

Finding the right list

So you want to add a project but aren't entirely sure what the proper list is, you've come to the right place.

Adding to the ReverseEagle Developers list.

Read the contributing.md file here

Sending an issue to a project

18 Aug 2020

This is a good template to use to send an issue to a project that uses proprietary code. It can give good insight on how difficult it could be to DeGoogle the project.

Hey there!

I'd like to ask why your project uses proprietary software, and if we can find a better, free alternative.

The nonfree software of most concern is:

...

Find Google services in FOSS

There are numerous ways to find Google services in FOSS.

Website

A lot of free open source software have their own website. Unfortunately, a lot of those websites have some Google services embedded in the website, for example Google Analytics. Some websites even use Google Cloud.

Google Cloud

Some open source services use Google Cloud to power their website, for example relay.firefox.com.

To find if a website uses Google Cloud, you will need the dig and whois packages, which are only available in UNIX-like operating systems, for example Linux, BSD and macOS.

  1. Firstly, you will have to find the domain/subdomain name of the website. For example, https://relay.firefox.com/ subdomain is relay.firefox.com.

  2. Secondly, you will have to find the IP address of the domain/subdomain by using the dig command. For example:

dig $(DOMAIN/SUBDOMAIN) +short

where ${DOMAIN/SUBDOMAIN} is the domain/subdomain, for example relay.firefox.com.

  1. Thirdly, you will have to find the cloud provider by using the whois command. For example:
whois $IP | grep "netname" -i

where $IP is the IP address provided by the dig ${DOMAIN/SUBDOMAIN} +short` command.

This will give you the Net Name of the cloud provider, for example GOOGLE-CLOUD.

Full example

If we take relay.firefox.com for example, it should look like the following when using the dig and whois commands:

$ dig relay.firefox.com +short
130.211.19.131
$ whois 130.211.19.131 | grep "netname" -i
NetName:        GOOGLE-CLOUD

To confirm that it uses Google Cloud, the whois output should have "google" (excl. casing).