On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 at 11:28:13 -0500 Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:27:33 +0100 > Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Il giorno Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:12:34 -0300 > > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <[email protected]> ha scritto: [...] > > > On the other hand, by making it impossible to install without > > > having to go and hunt firmwares under the excuse that they are not > > > open source, > > > > It's not an excuse: it's a matter of fact, they are proprietary, > > thus subject to a very different framework governing their > > availability, distribution and usage, also under the legal point of > > view. > > OK fine, just have this yes or no question early in the install: > > ============================================================= > Are you willing to have the install try non-free drivers and firmware > for your network, video, keyboard and mouse if free drivers and > firmware aren't available or don't work? (Y/N): > ============================================================= > > You'll say no, and the first attempt so will I. But if it doesn't work > with free-only, I'll try yes. Different strokes. You'll never get > nonfree software, and I'll have maximal chance of getting an > installation running. This would require having some separate, independent third party set up a non-free Devuan repository in order to protect the main Devuan one from any liability that might incur from distributing material that is encumbered by patents, non-free distribution license clauses, DMCA-infringment claims and so forth. Something like repoforge or deb-multimedia. Is there any one willing to undertake this project? -- Alessandro Selli http://alessandro.route-add.net VOIP SIP: [email protected] Chiavi PGP/GPG keys: B7FD89FD, 4A904FD9 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
