[Solar-general] Debian 6.0 Squeeze to be released with completely free Kernel(s)

[Nicolás Reynolds]

El 16/12/10 02:18, Marcos Germán Guglielmetti dijo:
> Stefano Zacchiroli: squeeze your non-free firmware away
> via Planet Debian by Stefano Zacchiroli on 12/15/10
> 
> Debian 6.0 Squeeze to be released with completely free Kernel(s)
> Today we have announced that, starting with the upcoming release of Squeeze, 
> Debian will be even Free-er. Exceptions to the DFSG for non-free Linux 
> firmware blobs, which have been granted in the past, will no longer be 
> granted. Starting from Squeeze, Debian will be Free the bottom up, no matter 
> where your own definition of software ends.
> The news has been known for a while within the Debian development community, 
> but we had the pleasure of sharing that with our users only today. According 
> to the reaction on identi.ca, where the news quickly made into the most 
> popular notices, people are enthusiastic about the news and that in turn is 
> very rewarding.
> If you are as happy and proud about this achievement as I am, please direct 
> your kudos to all the teams who made this possible:
> the Debian kernel team who worked for the past 2 release cycles, together with 
> Linux upstream, to split free-vs-non-free firmware bits and monitor new 
> releases to avoid freedom regressions;
> the Debian CD team who basically "forked" different media production lines, 
> for different user needs wrt firmware;
> the d-i team who added, long ago, support for loading user-provided firmware 
> at installation time;
> whoever else I might have forgotten who contributed to this result (feel free 
> to leave a comment to refresh my memory!).
> Having been trol^W asked several times in the past about the "real freeness" 
> of Debian at events, talks, and the like, I consider this episode to be a 
> very nice story to tell. While we have granted exceptions for Linux firmware 
> at the time of Etch and Lenny releases, during this time Debian people have 
> worked, together with upstream, to make this final result possible. All this 
> work has improved the situation not only for Debian users, but also for users 
> of those derivatives which rely upon Debian kernels.
> Nonetheless, don't expect us to live under a rock. We know that there are 
> users out there who need nasty non-free firmware bits to boot their machines 
> or to access the Internet. That is why separate images with firmware included 
> are being provided, although they are not part of Debian and are 
> properly "discriminated": they should be looked for explicitly by users and 
> can't be supported to the same extent of Free firmware, simply because we (as 
> anybody else other than the hardware manufacturer) do not have access to the 
> corresponding source code.
> This separation is a perfect example of the pragmatism embodied by the Debian 
> Social contract: Debian consists of 100% Free software; at the same time, 
> Debian enables its users to make their own choices in terms of Freedom, being 
> explicit about what users risk if they cross the boundaries of DFSG. 
> Awareness is the key here and I find it to be a very honest yet effective way 
> of explaining to the world why Free Software is better.
> This is not the end of the story though, as we need to document this change 
> properly to both increase awareness and avoid leaving users in the dark. A 
> couple of bugs filed today might benefit from the help of some kind 
> doc-writers: Debian bug #607191 (documenting the firmware change in the 
> Squeeze release notes) and Debian bug #607193 (documenting the firmware 
> change on the website).

fijate el mail que reenvie sobre el tema del manejo de firmware que hacen.

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