Re: How free is Debian

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 8/8/2019 6:11 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 17:33:52 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote:
>> With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and users,
>> who made GNU/Linux and Debian and all other distributions possible,
>> here lies a humble, ignorance and yet curious question.
>>
>> Are all binaries in the kernel code were writing from scratch? Are
>> there any binary blobs in the kernel that it was given to developers?
>> If amd64 license is not free, how is it that we have amd64 microcode in
>> the debian free?
>
> It isn't free; look:
>
> Package: amd64-microcode
> Version: 3.20160316.3
> Installed-Size: 68
> Maintainer: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> Recommends: initramfs-tools (>= 0.113~) | dracut (>= 044) | tiny-initramfs
> Breaks: intel-microcode (<< 2)
> Description: Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
> Description-md5: 093f190e183c7cfeca05b52ecd2116e3
> Section: non-free/admin
>          ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
> Priority: extra
> Filename: pool/non-free/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_3.20160316.3_amd64.deb
>                ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
> Size: 31116
> MD5sum: 7056e449d8bac87d85a4e434379d0e6e
> SHA256: f7bddaf712ffaa833ff65ef94bdd86720d55c2c56ae982c3db58181bbe70f147
>

None-free is a repository that you enable if you need to, it is not the
default in Debian if I am not mistaking.

--
John Doe