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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer</H1>
<B>Buchan Milne</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 24 12:25:05 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:03:08 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
><i> 2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>>:
</I>><i> > Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant
</I>><i> > survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity
</I>><i> > storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes no such difference as
</I>><i> > that those two media are available from the network without
</I>><i> > discrimination.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > So yes, the ISO in itself would not be free anymore; but as long as
</I>><i> > the install process does not pick into the nonfree media unless the
</I>><i> > user asks to, what does it make an issue (not that I have no idea
</I>><i> > about that, just that I'd like to see it expressed again from a
</I>><i> > different POV of mine - and that will help for the survey definition
</I>><i> > too).
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</I>><i> In the public appearance this would make a difference. As soon as
</I>><i> there is non-free contents on the ISO it is a non-free ISO. That we
</I>><i> provide non-free on the mirrors doesn't make Mageia a non-free distro,
</I>><i> only what we offer as "products".
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According to which definition/guidelines?
According to FSF, we are probably currently non-free.
Regards,
Buchan
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