On Sat, 14 May 2011 16:15:54 +0100 Michael Dorrington <michael.dorring...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > > Thank you Michal and Michael. > > > > So this means Debian has still many packages that are nonfree > > besides the kernel that now is 100% free? > > I would not say there are "many packages that are nonfree" in the > 'main' repository and only the 'main' repository is configured on > install. The official installer is free software. The kernels are > consider compliant with the DFSG by Debian but I do not know if > gNewSense consider them free or non-free software. We / linux-libre don't consider them completely free they still recommend proprietary software (through the firmware loading mechanism printing the name of the required proprietary firmware and saying its needed). > However, there is more to it than that. AFAIK, gNewSense aims to > create a "Free System Distribution" as defined in: > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html > where as Debian aims to create a distribution given in the "set of > commitments" of Debian Social Contract: > http://www.debian.org/social_contract Yeah, different goals. > There is more information at > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/common-distros.html > but I think the Debian entry needs to be redone. I'm curious, why do you think that? thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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