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A few days ago, Debian project leader Stefano Zacchiroli announced his plans for Debian to be included in the list of free software distributions recommended by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). |
The FSF maintains a short list of distributions that are totally free, those that have committed to making all their packages free software, avoiding any platform, driver, firmware or other that limits the freedoms of use.
Since the Debian project is committed to this freedom, and in fact, it is one of the main distributions that are chosen by users for this reason, it is that they are planning to do what is necessary to be included in the FSF list.
According to Zacchiroli, historically the reason why the distro has not been included in this list is because of the non-free firmware, included in the main repository, although this has already been corrected since 2010 with the release of Debian Squeeze.
Also, Debian 6.0 gave us a free kernel with proprietary code (in February 2011), where all free packages were moved to the main branch (main) in this way contrib and non-free were not included in the installation but it was easy to add them for complement the system in an easy and simple way. Despite all this effort and the fact that the FSF recognized Debian's step forward with Squeeze, the distro is not yet supported to add to the admirable list of free distributions.
Thus, they worked with John Sullivan, executive director of the FSF, who suggested working with Debian to find the problems to correct, while the Debian team would look for volunteers who are dedicated to documenting all this to determine the next steps.
Paradoxically, some of the distros that are on the list are derived from Debian (such as gNewSense or Trisquel).
Great, a giant as they should be 100% free, it is a great step for more distributions to do it 🙂
Of course, well, very well, against the diversity in GNU / Linux which is one of its main strengths. With all my respect.
you are wrong for:
1-if you don't want debian, contrib and non-free, don't add them
2-ubuntu gives its own support to non-free applications, as it depends on debian is its main packages (the official and actually free ones)
there is a phrase that says:
man is born free, but everywhere he is chained. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
If I hope they will .. so that the guachafita that from Ubuntu, Solus, MInt and all the derivatives ends once and for all ...
let's see what canonical will do when debian (its main life cable) stops supporting contrib and non-free
I hope they do not stop supporting contrib and non-free, they are used little but in some cases they are necessary, since they are not part of debian or its initial installation it should be enough to have the freedom to be free.
Hopefully they will, it seems silly to me that Debian is not considered a free distro. There should be nothing left but a minor excuse at this point, and it would be a shame if it was not resolved.
you are wrong in this case.
Although Ubuntu is the son of Debian, it has repositories and its own support for these, so if you remove the non-free and contrib branches, nothing will happen to Ubuntu.
now what i don't remember is if mint which is based on debian used debian repos for non-free. if that is the case and debian stopped supporting non-free and contrib it would be another story.
In any case, why be happy that a distribution is damaged?
Another thing. What will be done in this case if I am not mistaken is that non-free and contrib will not be installed with the distribution, doing a free installation, then if the user wishes he can activate them, so you do not lose support. it just won't install by default with debian.