Ricardo Gabriel Herdt said : > 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/ ).
But this still won't make Debian a free system distro as they still provide a non-free repos then, making them (and Ubuntu) not usable for building a free derivative, unless you copy the whole repositories and filter them... a. -- http://su.kuri.mu --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
