On 05/15/2011 11:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: > sdc writes: >> My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the [non-free] >> software hosted on it's servers? > > Because some of our users need it. While we make that stuff available, > we do not consider it part of Debian. > >> Don't they want to follow the FSF word? > > No. Note that the FSF publishes documentation that Debian considers > non-free. Debian is not a subsiduary of the FSF. See > <http://www.debian.org/social_contract>
While FSF may not consider it to be free, it is as long as you have not used the non-free and contrib repos. Install the package called vrms and run it from the terminal. If you have no programs in that list, then you're running a system that is just as free as any FSF-recommended OS. It used to irk me as well that Debian was not considered free by FSF, but they give us the choice. So, as with many things in GNU/Linux world, we have the choice of what we want to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dd040ac.1010...@yahoo.fr
