2010/12/15 Carlos Miranda Molina <[email protected]>: > Albricias! > > El próximo lanzamiento estable de Debian "Squeeze" se tomará en serio las > directrices referentes al software Libre que la misma Debian publica. > Y me acabo de desayunar con este noticia. > > :D > > http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101215 > > "The Debian project has been working in removing non-free firmware from > the Linux kernel shipped with Debian for the past two release cycles. At > the time of the releases of Debian 4.0 "Etch" and 5.0 "Lenny", however, it > was not yet possible to ship Linux kernels stripped of all non-free > firmware bits. Back then we had to acknowledge that freedom issues > concerning Linux firmware were not completely sorted out." > >
para el que esté preocupado por hardware que no vaya a funcionar en futuras instalaciones desde cero, es importante este párrafo (mismo enlace) : > In accordance with the Debian Social Contract, we acknowledge that some users > require the use of works that do not conform to the DFSG and that those works > might >include non-free firmware bits. For the time being, we have added to the >"non-free" >area of our archives alternative installation images and additional packages >for Debian >Squeeze, that include non-free firmware bits needed to enable specific pieces >of >hardware. They are not part of Debian, they should be looked for explicitly by >interested users, and we cannot support them to the same extent of Free >firmware as >we do not have access to the corresponding source code. We encourage hardware >manufacturers to release only DFSG-free firmware and we cannot accept other >kind of >firmware as part of Debian. eso significa que van a salir imágenes de instalación "non-free" que si incluyan el firmware que sacaron, y por supuesto, no hay soporte para eso porque no es software libre. Y claro, si ese firmware no es software libre, solo puede arreglarlo el fabricante -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
