Hi, lou wrote: > fedora includes firmware, and i think they are serious about open source
Open Source is not necessarily Free Software. > why debian can't do the same? There is a checklist for what is officially acceptable https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Fedora makes a special exemption for "binary firmware" in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmw are/ lou wrote: > it's unofficial, and it makes me feel uneasy Being unofficial does not make it less safe than any other distro's official ISO with non-free software. It's just that Debian makes a clearer distinction between the goal to distribute purely free software and the reality that some hardware does not work without non-free blobs which the computer has to load. Have a nice day :) Thomas
