El 16/12/10 02:18, Marcos Germán Guglielmetti dijo: > Stefano Zacchiroli: squeeze your non-free firmware away > via Planet Debian by Stefano Zacchiroli on 12/15/10 > > Debian 6.0 Squeeze to be released with completely free Kernel(s) > Today we have announced that, starting with the upcoming release of Squeeze, > Debian will be even Free-er. Exceptions to the DFSG for non-free Linux > firmware blobs, which have been granted in the past, will no longer be > granted. Starting from Squeeze, Debian will be Free the bottom up, no matter > where your own definition of software ends. > The news has been known for a while within the Debian development community, > but we had the pleasure of sharing that with our users only today. According > to the reaction on identi.ca, where the news quickly made into the most > popular notices, people are enthusiastic about the news and that in turn is > very rewarding. > If you are as happy and proud about this achievement as I am, please direct > your kudos to all the teams who made this possible: > the Debian kernel team who worked for the past 2 release cycles, together > with > Linux upstream, to split free-vs-non-free firmware bits and monitor new > releases to avoid freedom regressions; > the Debian CD team who basically "forked" different media production lines, > for different user needs wrt firmware; > the d-i team who added, long ago, support for loading user-provided firmware > at installation time; > whoever else I might have forgotten who contributed to this result (feel free > to leave a comment to refresh my memory!). > Having been trol^W asked several times in the past about the "real freeness" > of Debian at events, talks, and the like, I consider this episode to be a > very nice story to tell. While we have granted exceptions for Linux firmware > at the time of Etch and Lenny releases, during this time Debian people have > worked, together with upstream, to make this final result possible. All this > work has improved the situation not only for Debian users, but also for users > of those derivatives which rely upon Debian kernels. > Nonetheless, don't expect us to live under a rock. We know that there are > users out there who need nasty non-free firmware bits to boot their machines > or to access the Internet. That is why separate images with firmware included > are being provided, although they are not part of Debian and are > properly "discriminated": they should be looked for explicitly by users and > can't be supported to the same extent of Free firmware, simply because we (as > anybody else other than the hardware manufacturer) do not have access to the > corresponding source code. > This separation is a perfect example of the pragmatism embodied by the Debian > Social contract: Debian consists of 100% Free software; at the same time, > Debian enables its users to make their own choices in terms of Freedom, being > explicit about what users risk if they cross the boundaries of DFSG. > Awareness is the key here and I find it to be a very honest yet effective way > of explaining to the world why Free Software is better. > This is not the end of the story though, as we need to document this change > properly to both increase awareness and avoid leaving users in the dark. A > couple of bugs filed today might benefit from the help of some kind > doc-writers: Debian bug #607191 (documenting the firmware change in the > Squeeze release notes) and Debian bug #607193 (documenting the firmware > change on the website).
fijate el mail que reenvie sobre el tema del manejo de firmware que hacen. -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:[email protected] omb:http://identi.ca/fauno blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ gnu/linux user #455044 http://librecultivo.org.ar http://parabolagnulinux.org
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