** Summary changed: - [needs-packaging] Linux Libre kernel + No easy way to have a fully free install
** Description changed: - 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. + Contrary to popular belief, the Linux kernel from kernel.org is not free + software. It not only recommends non-free software but also actually + contains it (i.e., software that does not respect your essential + freedoms). Because of this, the default install contains non-free + software. Here are some links with more info and lists of the non-free + software in the kernel: - Linux-libre is a project to maintain and publish 100% Free distributions - of Linux, suitable for use in Free System Distributions, removing - software that is included without source code, with obfuscated or - obscured source code, under non-Free Software licenses, that do not - permit you to change the software so that it does what you wish, and - that induces or requires you to install additional pieces of non-Free - Software. + http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gnu_linux_and_freedom_nonfree_software_hidden_in_your_linux_distribution + http://libresoft.es/Members/herraiz/blog/linux-is-not-free-software + http://manulix.wikidot.com/kernel-blobs + http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines - For more information: http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux- - libre/index.en + The mainline kernel does not meet the stricter Free System Distribution + Guidelines, nor the Debian Free Software Guidelines, or even the promise + made in Ubuntu's Philosophy. Even if by default, some non-free software + is included or recommended, there should, at the very least, be a + reasonably easy way to choose to have a fully free installation. Ubuntu + even has a free software only option available...which still contains + binary blobs! - URL: http://www.linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/ - License: GPL + http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html + http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines + http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy + + Non-free software has been in the mainline kernel for some time, so + until (and if) that is fixed, the Linux-libre kernel has already done + the work of maintaining of fully free kernel which is used in a number + of free GNU/Linux distros. Linux-libre is a project to maintain and + publish 100% Free distributions of Linux, suitable for use in Free + System Distributions, removing software that is included without source + code, with obfuscated or obscured source code, under non-Free Software + licenses, that do not permit you to change the software so that it does + what you wish, and that induces or requires you to install additional + pieces of non-free software. Ideally, the default kernel should be free, + but otherwise a fully free kernel should be supported. + + http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ -- No easy way to have a fully free install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370675 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
