Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
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.
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