Andrew Wigglesworth wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2007 06:18, Kevin Dean wrote: > <snip> > 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. > > Actually, most of the firmware in the kernel is from the Linux team. None is added by debian, but i dont know about 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 > Its impossible to do DRI with ati cards, because of the change Kevin mentions. what the package is i dunno. kk -- 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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