Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
Hi everyone! John Hasler: Note that the FSF publishes documentation that Debian considers non-free. Just out of curiosity: Which documentation are you referring to? Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dd0d503.6090...@familysnow.net
Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 09:40:51, Florian Snow wrote: Hi everyone! John Hasler: Note that the FSF publishes documentation that Debian considers non-free. Just out of curiosity: Which documentation are you referring to? For example the emacs docs that were mentioned recently in another thread. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, sdc asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I was reading FSF distro review and I was shocked to see that Debian isn't actually free software. FSF said that they are making a big progress(this happened when they removed the blobs from the kernel) but still isn't free software because users have the option to install proprietary software from debian's server and this is a bit confusing for beginners in this free software world. My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the proprietary software hosted on it's servers? Don't they want to follow the FSF word? Thanks!
Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
sdc writes: My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the [non-free] software hosted on it's servers? Because some of our users need it. While we make that stuff available, we do not consider it part of Debian. Don't they want to follow the FSF word? No. Note that the FSF publishes documentation that Debian considers non-free. Debian is not a subsiduary of the FSF. See http://www.debian.org/social_contract -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r5803siq@thumper.dhh.gt.org
Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
On 05/15/2011 11:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: sdc writes: My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the [non-free] software hosted on it's servers? Because some of our users need it. While we make that stuff available, we do not consider it part of Debian. Don't they want to follow the FSF word? No. Note that the FSF publishes documentation that Debian considers non-free. Debian is not a subsiduary of the FSF. See http://www.debian.org/social_contract While FSF may not consider it to be free, it is as long as you have not used the non-free and contrib repos. Install the package called vrms and run it from the terminal. If you have no programs in that list, then you're running a system that is just as free as any FSF-recommended OS. It used to irk me as well that Debian was not considered free by FSF, but they give us the choice. So, as with many things in GNU/Linux world, we have the choice of what we want to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dd040ac.1010...@yahoo.fr
[Solved]: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:10:08 +0300, sdc wrote in message banlktikb0dbmlckyoph-wqu2gft+2oq...@mail.gmail.com: By the way, is there an option to mark this mail as a solved so others will (hopefully)not reply to it anymore? ..put [Solved] or some such on the Subject: line, like here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501010719.469ef902@celsius.local
