On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 04:39:47PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > Thanks for the insightful suggestion! Can we also just get rid of > non-free and contrib in that case and put everything in main? If > people don't want non-free software they can just not install it, > right? Problem solved apparently. As many (most?) modern physical machines require enabling non-free (if not for device firmware then at least for CPU microcode updates), the end result is not that different. We already tell people to enable non-free and check everything they install as that's the only option we provide. > /me wanders off to find a distro which still cares to make it clear > when it's shipping something that doesn't use F/LOSS licenses For people near the non-usability pole of the freeness-usability tradeoff FSF recommends multiple distros at https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html. -- WBR, wRAR
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