[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Thu Mar 24 12:25:05 CET 2011

On Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:03:08 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
+> > Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant
+> > survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity
+> > storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes no such difference as
+> > that those two media are available from the network without
+> > discrimination.
+> > 
+> > So yes, the ISO in itself would not be free anymore; but as long as
+> > the install process does not pick into the nonfree media unless the
+> > user asks to, what does it make an issue (not that I have no idea
+> > about that, just that I'd like to see it expressed again from a
+> > different POV of mine - and that will help for the survey definition
+> > too).
+> 
+> In the public appearance this would make a difference. As soon as
+> there is non-free contents on the ISO it is a non-free ISO. That we
+> provide non-free on the mirrors doesn't make Mageia a non-free distro,
+> only what we offer as "products".
+
+According to which definition/guidelines?
+
+According to FSF, we are probably currently non-free.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+