Re: [Trisquel-users] Is tails a libre os?

[chris]

The problem is the projects use-case makes eliminating the non-free software  
difficult. I think they'd likely agree that the non-free software is a  
security risk and the licensing is problematic. They've chosen to remove  
TrueCrypt as an example for similar issues. While not closed in nature (the  
source code is available) it is not in line with free software license  
standards. This is in part because of things that happened a long time ago  
prior to a lot of the standardization and the fact the copyright was sold to  
a company that isn't going to re-license it. You can only develop under an  
out-of-date incompatible license as a result.

The best thing to do in this situation is talk to the Tails developers. Maybe  
post a bug report. Some of these bugs might actually get fixed over time and  
some of these "bugs" may already have been filed. Somebody might be working  
on them. However you need to look into it. I keep tabs on the Tails project,  
but am in no way involved in development- nor do I keep tabs on the bug  
reports. At best I've read bug reports from time to time. I am on both the  
Tor and Tails mailing lists.