On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:35:32PM +0200, Anto wrote: [cut]
> > Hello KatolaZ, > > Since Devuan is clearly a fork of Debian, does it have to respect > Debian policy and follow what Debian does? > > I don't think the approach suggested in this thread will make Devuan > the same as Ubuntu. The approach is basically just to ease up the > net-install process for the users if I am not wrong. > Anto, I was not the one bringing (erroneously) in the discussion the "default" policy unsed by Debian about firmware to support his point :) I was just pointing out a fact which is in striking contrast with was somebody *believed* was the default in Debian, maybe confusing it for the default in some other distro... Maybe I am the only one unable to see the problem in asking the owner of hardware which requires some essential non-free firmware during installation to put the required firmware on a USB stick during the first boot. If the user has got a way to burn a net-install cd, then he almost surely has no problem into plugging a USB stick on that other computer and copying one file therein.... From a legal point of view, I would also carefully refrain from redistributing any non-free firmware in Devuan, the main reason being that usually you *don't* have the right to redistribute it, and even if you have got this right from the HW constructor, such right can be withdrawn any moment at their own will, which might be a quite unpleasent surprise for Devuan... HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
