On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:12:19 +0100, Paul O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/06/10 10:04, Manolinux wrote: >>>> so... it seems that debian policies consider having unmodifiable >>>> sections in GFDL a more serious issue for freedom than having non-free >>>> software in their repos or binary blobs in the linux kernel... >>>> >>>> >> Sorry to annoy you with an old topic, but I just learned that debian >> mantains binary blobs in a separate package in the non-free repo >> (meaning they do not consider it to be more serious than the >> invariable sections), and I thought it would be fair to state it here. >> >> Regards, >> Mu. >> >> > Perhaps it would be worth someone's time to compare the Linux-libre > effect and the debian kernel as it stands, I think there will be a gap > in favour of LL > > Regards > Paul
Mu, linux-libre removes also obfuscated code and code-not-in-source-form, that debian consider as free software. There was a good example of this in a debian bug report by Robert Millan (nyu). Graziano Sorbaioli - sorbaioli.org _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
