Hello, Simon, Thanks for undertaking debian-libre, it's very valuable IMHO.
On Dec 1, 2025, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe naming here is a problem though. If this doesn't use your > linux-libre sources, or even your deblob script, how do you feel about > even calling that 'linux-libre'? IMHO, as long as you follow the same approach and reach the same goal of GNU FSDG-compliance, there's no reason to mind your calling it Linux-libre, even if you need to adjust some details because you're starting from a slightly different baseline. There's one concern in my mind, however, about what corresponding sources you'd publish. If you just add cleaning-up scripts to Debian's sources, you'll be already better off than those who publish upstream sources plus scripts, because they still make binary blobs available under obnoxious licenses as part of their source trees, whereas I believe Debian cleans those up. You might still be shipping plenty of binary blob names and freedom-averse pieces of documentation, unless you publish as corresponding sources the *result* of the cleaning up. I'll second Jason's warning that the script-based approach to cleaning up is to be phased out when we switch to a manually-cleaned repository. We will still have a deblob-check, but the plan was to not have a deblob-<kver> any more. That said, maybe we can figure out a way to turn diffs between upstream and libre releases into a script that cleans things up. That may involve running patch to do part of the job, but publishing such scripts is probably not going to work, freedom-wise. I have been thinking about how to address Trisquel's needs for a more flexible way to clean up heavily patched upstream sources than taking diffs between upstream and libre releases. Maybe we'll be able to come up with something, and that will be useful to you and to others that currently rely on the cleaning-up scripts. > anyone have ideas for names, that would be great ('linux-deblob'?). I linux.deblibred could be fun if you'd rather go for a name other than linux-libre. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/ Free Software Activist FSFLA co-founder GNU Toolchain Engineer Learn the truth about Richard Stallman at https://stallmansupport.org/ _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
