Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3

[Alice]

On 7/24/21 1:50 AM, Alice wrote:

On 7/24/21 1:45 AM, Alice wrote:

On 7/24/21 1:43 AM, Alice wrote:

On 7/23/21 10:49 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Alice  wrote:

On 7/23/21 9:52 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

My point is, when we changed the ACCEPT_LICENSE default to @FREE in

from kernel packages. The conclusion was that we could do so starting
with version 4.14, because in that version firmware was gone from the
Linux kernel tree.

2019, there was a discussion if we could remove LICENSE="linux-firmware"

Now, either our conclusion back then was right, then >=*-sources-4.14

the purpose of deblobbing. Could somebody more knowledgeable please
explain it to me?

are under a free software license, and I don't understand what would be

Or our conclusion was wrong, which means that there are still non-free

files in the kernel tree. Again, could someone explain and show me
examples of such non-free files?

I think this discussion is not to do be done here.
if you want to discuss about deblob philosophy please open a thread
about this on the FSF mailing list.

Sorry for my perseverance, but it affects what we declare as LICENSE
of kernel packages, so at least to some degree it _is_ our discussion.

According to COPYING and Documentation/process/license-rules.rst the
kernel is "provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 only". Does the FSFLA/Linux-libre project challenge that
statement (and if yes, why don't they work with Linux upstream to
rectify the situation)? I am still hoping that someone will explain it
to me.

Ulrich

I still think is not a discussion to be done here

Please check this for more informations:
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/index.en.html

The link is replying to also your question about >=*-sources-4.14

also if you have other questions please ask it to the appropriated mailing list -> linux-li...@fsfla.org

AFAIK

GNU FSDG-compliance require not only removing non-free code but also to disable loading of known non-free firmware.

I also point you to some other information from the mailing list
https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2020-August/003400.html
https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2021-May/003419.html



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Thanks,
Alicef

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