Thanks a lot for your reply. The information i am looking for should be very precise, for example:
kernel module "tg3", excerpt from source code (obtainable at http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Linux): /* * tg3.c: Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver. * * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 David S. Miller ([email protected]) * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Jeff Garzik ([email protected]) * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc. * Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Broadcom Corporation. * * Firmware is: * Derived from proprietary unpublished source code, * Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation. * * Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware * data in hexadecimal or equivalent format, provided this copyright * notice is accompanying it. */ This shows clearly that the firmware is non-free. Everybody can check it for him/herself now. I would like to have many of these examples for the article. Greetings ben > Thank you very much for taking time to write an article about gNewSense! > > The version of the Linux kernel present inside Ubuntu is non free. > It has non free firmware (that we call blobs) inside. > > > It has repositories with non free software inside activated by default. > > It has Firefox that suggests (= make it easy to install) non free > plugins such as Adobe Flash. > > > > Feel free to add more. > > - -- > Graziano Sorbaioli -- www.sorbaioli.org > ======================================================================== > Join the Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7201 > Supporters will receive our new USB membership card with gNewSense Live > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkl27NIACgkQTtn97LA90HMQvACg4miOdzuVa4xHBU9sY/DYZ9TR > +DQAoO8dhlk3QCtJXYeJocPAD91U8d9d > =v5Jg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
