Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 04:17:29PM -0400, nick black wrote: > Theodore Ts'o left as an exercise for the reader: > > whatever that means), I suspect there will be various Linux newbie or > > FAQ's, external to Debian, that will warn users that the using the > > "free" installer will just cause them

Re: non-free?

2014-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Paul Wise dijo [Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 07:21:07AM +0800]: In practice almost everyone has non-free in their sources.list due to most firmware being non-free. Also most developers will have non-free in their sources.list due to various GNU documentation being in non-free. Don't know. In my case

the internet is for censorship! (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 19 September 2008 15:21, cobaco wrote: Censorship is nothing more or less then banning/prohibiting certain speach in a certain forum So if you go to a party, drink all the booze, puke in the kitchen on the food and then get kicked out by the hosts, because they cant stand you

Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. this is clearly non-free material. Can we please - remove those

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Christian Hammers
On 2006-08-06 Andrew Vaughan wrote: But Debian has also made a promise that main will be free. And the kernel breaks that. Ok. Looks like we need to move the kernel to non-free. Good thing nothing important depends on it. Let's silently migrate to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD :) bye

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:00:06AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: On 2006-08-06 Andrew Vaughan wrote: But Debian has also made a promise that main will be free. And the kernel breaks that. Ok. Looks like we need to move the kernel to non-free. Good thing nothing important depends

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Edmonds
On 2006-08-07, Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's silently migrate to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD :) Which also has non-free drivers in the upstream kernel source -- but, they've been removed from the kernel images. -- Robert Edmonds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
that depends if anyone ever sues, which is indeed unlikely. But Debian has also made a promise that main will be free. And the kernel breaks that. Ok. Looks like we need to move the kernel to non-free. Good thing nothing important depends on it. Cheers Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-20 Thread John O'Hagan
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: Therefore, all GPL'd programs will have to go to non-free. Q.E.D. Is this a correct interpretation of what will happen after the release of sarge or is there any mistake in my proof? The problem you have identified is not new, or unique to free software