2010/10/3 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]>: > Ricardo Gabriel Herdt said : > 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...
Can't you simply enable only the main repo, which only contains free software? That's what debian does. I think having a separate, non-free repo is a good solution, since one can be sure that installing main won't contain non-free software, and if some non-free stuff is needed, they can be installed on a safe and stable way. For example, I'm working in a public school in Brazil which received hundreds of Intel Classmate laptops from the government , with a crap distro (metasys) pre-installed. Right now, I'm building a live distro to be used as liveUSBs by the children and teachers from the school, and I choose debian. The problem is that all laptops come with a wireless adapter that requires non-free firmware. So, what should I do according to FSF? Install gnewsense and give the children computers without internet access, killing the whole purpose of the UCA/OLPC project? Don't get me wrong, I do like FSF, it's really important to have an organization fighting for the free software cause, but on this matter I think they are just wrong. If debian's fault is to make it possible to run free software on non-free hardware on a safe and tested way, aren't, for example, Emacs developers doing the saming righting code to make it possible to run this wonderful free App on a non-free OS? --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
