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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer</H1>
<B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 24 17:31:50 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 24.03.2011 14:41, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
><i> 2011/3/24 Anssi Hannula <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">anssi.hannula at iki.fi</A>>:
</I>>><i> On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
</I>>>><i> But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents
</I>>>><i> in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not
</I>>>><i> care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We
</I>>>><i> should rather stress the point.
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</I>>><i> Note that the current Alpha2 ISO contains many non-free [1] firmware
</I>>><i> files, and without those e.g. many popular wired NICs do not work, and
</I>>><i> the 3D acceleration of ATI *free* driver depends on those.
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</I>>><i> [1] Depending on the definition - some are BSD/similar but still without
</I>>><i> source code, so considered non-free by OSI/FSF/Debian.
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</I>><i> Good point. In this discussion we were too vague about this.
</I>><i> As I see this the discussion so far was about "non-free" software,
</I>><i> where "non-free" meant the software in the non-free repos, not the
</I>><i> strict definition of "free" by FSF.
</I>><i> Prominent example (and trigger of this discussion): WiFi driver/firmware.
</I>
Well, currently the firmware are assigned between non-free and core at
random (yes, we have non-free firmware in core, and yes, there are GPL
firmware in non-free, etc), so...
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Anssi Hannula
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