[adding the mailing list] On May 26, 2021, BTD Master <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed PureOS mentioned. However, in its repositories it seems to > use the vanilla Debian kernel *nod*; Debian cleans up Linux, and PureOS relies on that. > what exactly the Linux-libre kernel has > that is important for free software. We also disable loading of known non-free firmware, so that, even if you install it on a hostile distro that automates installation of non-free firmware based on kernel requests, you won't get any. That's important for GNU FSDG-compliance of a kernel distribution. For a distro that encompasses the other pieces and knows they won't induce users to error, this extra step is not essential. > Looking through deblob-check, however, I could not find anything beyond > MIT-licensed assembly code with magic bytes being removed Which version did you look at, and what specifically did you see? I don't think that description is fitting for anything we do or did. > though not copyleft C code, it is nothing like the awful things that > go on in linux-firmware. MIT/X11-licensed sourceless binary code is just as non-Free as something distributed under an obnoxious license. Either one distributed in combination with a GPLed program deviates from the terms of the GPLv2 and triggers its automatic termination. So it's not like it wouldn't be awful in its own way. > Is there something I am missing that makes the mainline > kernel tree > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/) > objectively non-free? https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2020-August/003400.html is still applicable. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org> _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
