[Fsf-Debian] Silent here

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:39:02PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Hi,

Hi, Paul

> 
> Very silent here.
> 
> In my opinion it's not a good idea to make Debian FSF-free at the
> moment. But what we should do is to make Debian "almost FSF-free" and
> make some steps in the good direction.
> 
> In my opinion we could do the following:
> 1. Move the non-free and the contrib repository from the debian.org
> domain to another domain name, under control of DD's.
> 2. Change the installer in a manner that no non-free firmware is advised
> anymore, but that you still can use it.
> 3. Remove recommendations or suggestions to non-free software in packages.
> 
> What we cannot do at the moment is remove non-free and contrib
> completely, and we also cannot remove all documentation about non-free
> software and firmware.

Speaking of Documentation, there is a *lot* of stuff that's only in
contrib / non-free due to the GFDL, which the FSF considers Free.

Not saying that's the common case, just noting that not everything in
non-free is, well, FSF non-free.

> 
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.

Greets,
  Paul

> 
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