2010/10/3 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]>: > So if I understand this page correctly, regarding package sources and > derived distros, any Debian or Ubuntu based (live) distro would not > qualify as free system distro, unless they would copy the whole > Ubuntu/Debian repositories without the nonfree bits?
That's what gnewsense does. The kernel must also be freed, since the vanilla kernel contains binary blobs. Before releasing Debian Lenny, there was a voting to decide if debian could be released with non-free firmware inside the kernel. Debian has a social contract that guarantees it won't contain non-free software, so the voting was to make an exception in the contract to that specific release, since cleaning the kernel would delay Debian 5.0 much longer. Fortunately, Debian 6.0 (AKA squeeze) will come with a free kernel, since binary firmwares are now packaged in separate packages available on the non-free section (see: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ ). --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
