> HYDRA_DISALLOW_UNFREE was designed for our buildfarm, where "unfree" means > "not > legally distributable". Since the kernel is legal to distribute despite the > binary firmware blobs (I assume that's your objection?), HYDRA_DISALLOW_UNFREE > will block it.
"Linux, the kernel developed and distributed by Linus Torvalds et al, contains non-Free Software, i.e., software that does not respect your essential freedoms, and it induces you to install additional non-Free Software that it doesn't contain." [1] > In general, there's no automatic way to detect what is free and what is not, > especially considering people's different definitions. HYDRA_DISALLOW_UNFREE > depends on packagers specifying the license when they add an unfree package. > If > someone were to take the time to add meta attributes to each package that is > free by their standards (or to every one that is not), it would be pretty easy > to then provide a way for them to ensure their system only has those packages, > but that initial work is not trivial. You're right. I forgot to define the word "free." Here is a definition [2] that I had in mind. Yes, it's not trivial, but still possible. There is a list of free distros [3]. Nikita [1] http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ [2] https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [3] https://gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
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