That sounds like they are GPL violations that would be illegal for
both Halium and Debian to distribute. Is Halium really intending to
violate the Linux kernel license?
I need to correct myself, all the blobs are inside android and not
contained by the kernel. So that problem is out of the way. If there are
kernel blobs, they are external kernel modules from android, not
included in the kernel
Sony are already upstreaming support for their devices, so it isn't
unrealistic that more vendors will eventually come around to working
with mainline Linux.
This mainlining by Sony is mostly not complete enough to run a complete
system (including graphics, sound etc.). Even with freedreno, it's not
complete enough, as we want to have gps, camera and many sensors working.
For better understanding of our stack, I’ll include a graphic showing it:
As you can see, all blue parts wouldn't need to be part of the
distribution, so the distribution (debian here) can just include free
software user interfaces in their repositories, and no vendor stuff.
I would like to know if you would be interessted in providing user
interfaces like plasma-mobile or enlightenment into your debian
repositories.
