On Monday 16 April 2007 06:18, Kevin Dean wrote: <snip> > However, the FSF definition IS used to determine if software is > distributed by gNewSense. The question of "How do we define Free" has > already been answered and it DOES look beyond the license. </snip>
An example? I've not seen that in any of the packaging decisions made in gNewSense. <snip> > > The complete source code of the kernel Linux is NOT availible, and > that's EXACTLY why the gNewSense project, in essence, forked the Linux > kernel to remove the non-free components. > </snip> gNewSense has not forked the Linux kernel in any sense. gNewSense is Ubuntu Dapper without the non-free stuff put in by Debian/Ubuntu. > If you can not reasonably makes changes to it, it's not Free. You can > not _reasonably_ make changes to binary firmware so it has been deemed > non-Free and removed. It is GPL, and it is non-Free. The same > situation exists for the Radeon driver provided by Xorg. It is a Free > Software license, but it contain ATI microcode that can not be > reasonably modified so it is non-Free and removed. The Free Software Radeon drivers have not been removed in gNewSense. See the package: xserver-xorg-driver-ati -- Andrew _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
