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[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

+ Wolfgang Bornath + molch.b at googlemail.com +
+ Thu Mar 24 13:41:48 CET 2011 +

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2011/3/24 Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi>:
+> On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents
+>> in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not
+>> care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We
+>> should rather stress the point.
+>
+> Note that the current Alpha2 ISO contains many non-free [1] firmware
+> files, and without those e.g. many popular wired NICs do not work, and
+> the 3D acceleration of ATI *free* driver depends on those.
+>
+> [1] Depending on the definition - some are BSD/similar but still without
+> source code, so considered non-free by OSI/FSF/Debian.
+
+Good point. In this discussion we were too vague about this.
+As I see this the discussion so far was about "non-free" software,
+where "non-free" meant the software in the non-free repos, not the
+strict definition of "free" by FSF.
+Prominent example (and trigger of this discussion): WiFi driver/firmware.
+
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+wobo
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