On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My main basis for judging any distro is the policies it has adopted. > > Everyone makes mistakes, and well-intentioned people fix their > mistakes. So if someone finds a non-free program in gNewSense, or in > OpenBSD, in violation of the distro's policies, that's no disaster. I > trust the developers will remove it once they find out.
just a layman here trying to make sense of it all. According to you, gNewSense, an ubuntu (debian) derivitave -- is free software. I use ubuntu on a laptop. According to gNewSense their policy supports use of the universe and main package repositories from ubuntu with the few mentioned changes. Apples to apples comparisons I say. I adjust my repositories in a repository browser and poke away. I find java, I find tools to work with many non-free pieces of software as well. So OpenBSD becomes non-free because we don't have a database column that labels stuff non-free, or a special folder for non-free packages?
