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

[Alice]

On 7/25/21 2:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote:

On Sun, 2021-07-25 at 01:57 +0900, Alice wrote:

On 7/25/21 1:56 AM, Michał Górny wrote:

Dnia July 24, 2021 4:52:28 PM UTC, Alice <ali...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

On 7/24/21 3:30 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, alicef  wrote:

On July 24, 2021 3:21:56 AM GMT+09:00, Ulrich Mueller

<u...@gentoo.org> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Alice  wrote:

GNU FSDG-compliance require not only removing non-free code but

also

to disable loading of known non-free firmware.

So they actually remove code that by itself is free software. I had
suspected that. (By what logic does removing an option add to the
user's freedom and choice, though? :)

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

Thank you. Looks like there's no issue with the LICENSE="GPL-2"

label

for recent kernels then.

that's not what they are saying.

The first posting references a discussion on Wikipedia (which I think

is

a third party with a more neutral point of view than Linux-libre):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux_kernel/Archive_7#RfC_on_the_Linux_kernel_licensing_rules

I tend to agree with their conclusion, which resulted in the

following

wording:

"The official kernel, that is the Linus git branch at the kernel.org
repository, does not contain any kind of proprietary code; however

Linux

can search the filesystems to locate proprietary firmware, drivers,

and

other executable modules (collectively known as "binary blobs"), then

it

can load and link them into the kernel space."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Firmware_binary_blobs

but I repeat again please open a thread to their own mailing list

not

here.

Sorry, but I don't care about the Linux-libre patches, only about the
mainline kernel. So if anything, I would start a thread on the LKML
about concrete files that violate the GPL. Then again, I don't have
evidence of any such files (see above).

You are complain against linux-libre not mainline kernel so you should
ask their opinion on this topic. linux-li...@fsfla.org

My modest opinion on the topic is:
As far that is free software and there are users that use deblob, I
don't see any reason on why we should not support this and give them
the
choice. Gentoo is about choice.

Then why does none of the supported kernels offer that choice?

why they shouldn't ?

That's my question.  Apparently deblob is only supported for rt-sources.
Last I heard, only gentoo-sources are officially supported.

deblob is only supported for rt-sources.
gentoo-sources currently doesn't have deblob.

--
Thanks,
Alicef

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