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Le 12-09-22 12:05 PM, Micha? Mas?owski a écrit :
>> I believe Debian has already achieved that and is only pending review by
>> the FSF.
>
> Old news or was there significant progress after Squeeze (and its kernel
> just recommending separate blobs)?
>
>>> and without repositories that would allow to easily install non-free
>>> software right ?
>>
>> By that logic Trisquel would need to remove any and all
>> "add-apt-repository" and PPA additions / /etc/apt/sources.list* editing
>> functionality.
>
> If we had recommended PPAs with nonfree software or provided such on the
> Trisquel infrastructure (e.g. packages.trisquel.info), we would
> certainly remove them.
>
> "[A]llow to [...] install" is not a good wording here, we allow users to
> run any software they want to (would it be a free system otherwise?).
> This is different from recommending nonfree software like Debian or
> Ubuntu does.

Thanks for clarifying that. I fully agree "recommending" non-free
software is not the way to go.

On the other hand, *making it difficult* to do so is another decision
that can go both ways: bring more users or alienate potential new users.

Not easy to decide, depending on your needs / situation.

F.


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