On Wed, 09 Nov 2016, Ivan Zaigralin wrote: > On Wednesday, November 09, 2016 14:19:21 Ivan Zaigralin wrote: > > On Thursday, November 10, 2016 08:51:14 Riley Baird wrote:
> > > Should Trisquel be able to create a list of computers with > > > compatible hardware? there is such a list all 100% free distros can rely on it is here https://h-node.org > > This is a good question, and may be someone here can provide an > > answer? Trisquel does not offer to ship its distribution over a medium that contains non-free software. A pre-installed PC with a proprietary BIOS is a "medium". If one offers an ISO image to download or a CD, that is also a medium and it does not contain non-free software in addition to the distribution. for instance, when we will do an 100% free version of Devuan, even then we won't be able to offer it pre-installed on RaspberryPi boxes, because RPis contain non-free firmware blobs, so it cannot be used as a medium for the distribution of free software. we shall then use EOMA86 as a pre-installed medium (and lucky for us they have already ported Devuan) since it doesn't contain any firmware blob https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop > Reading the guidelines again, if the BIOS situation can be seen as a > "borderline" area a BIOS is made of software. if there is no source for it, or even if it contains some binary blobs, then is not free software. I'm a bit surprised how this is not clear as of now. ciao
