Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Kevin Dean wrote: > >> This is not an official responce, but I asked Paul about this as soon >> as I read the announcement on Ubuntu-devel. >> >> As of now, there is no news. The gNS developers have been invited to >> UDS to see what can and can't be done together; beyond that there's >> not news because nothing is happening. >> >> However, if Ubuntu should do this, gNewSense will continue to exists >> as it's own project; Canonical run Ubuntu as a commercial distro that >> includes non-Free content; gNewSense is, and will continue to be, >> about Freedom. The goals are not the same, and one projects can't >> incorporate the other >> > > I don't think /Ubuntu/ can incorporate gnewsense, but Canonical > certainly *could* offer a free as in freedom distro without unfree > dependencies. I hope they follow through with this announcement and do > just that. If they don't, I will continue using gnewsense. > > One thing that is required for a distribution to be FSF free is not hosting non-free content in its repositories - and i dont see ubuntu loosing multiverse or restricted. Unless they deliberately break binary compatibility between the two versions, the new ubuntu winds up non-free by default. It will be interesting to see. kk
> Matthew Flaschen > -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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