2011/3/24 Anssi Hannula <anssi.hann...@iki.fi>: > On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >> But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents >> in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not >> care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We >> should rather stress the point. > > Note that the current Alpha2 ISO contains many non-free [1] firmware > files, and without those e.g. many popular wired NICs do not work, and > the 3D acceleration of ATI *free* driver depends on those. > > [1] Depending on the definition - some are BSD/similar but still without > source code, so considered non-free by OSI/FSF/Debian.
Good point. In this discussion we were too vague about this. As I see this the discussion so far was about "non-free" software, where "non-free" meant the software in the non-free repos, not the strict definition of "free" by FSF. Prominent example (and trigger of this discussion): WiFi driver/firmware. -- wobo