Il giorno sabato 30/01/2010 19:56:27 CET Michael Stevens <mstev...@etla.org> ha scritto:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:50:31PM +0100, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > the drivers are under GPL2... *BUT* they require a *non-free* > > software firmware to be loaded... [...] > My complain is that the default gNS on my new install seems to have > installed the non-free intel firmware by default! So it works when it > shouldn't. on my system it did not have worked (but mine is an "old" istallation... i did it a just few days after the gNS 2.3 release) > I mean I was planning to accept the freedom violation and manually > install the nonfree firmware until I save up and buy some properly > free hardware, but I wasn't expecting gNS to default to nonfree. i agree... despite of a gNS system works or not, these intel drivers, although they are free, use or "suggest" using non-free blobs to properly work... so, in my opinion, better if they would come out from gNS... regards al3xu5 / dotcommon -- Support free software! Join FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7535 ______________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key block ID: 1024D/11C70137 Fingerprint: 60F1 B550 3A95 7901 F410 D484 82E7 5377 11C7 0137 Key download: http://bitfreedom.noblogs.org/gallery/5721/dotcommon.asc [ Please, do not send my key to any keyserver! ]
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