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+ | * Distros want/need popularity | ||
+ | * Blobs attract more users? | ||
+ | * Incentive to betray users, weaken communities | ||
+ | * Prisoners' dilemma, iterated | ||
+ | * Defection feeds the aggressors | ||
+ | * Tragedy of the commons | ||
== Adoption == | == Adoption == |
Revision as of 12:33, 21 March 2009
Contents
Freeing the kernel and the Linux-libre project
History
- 2006 gNewSense's find-firmware and gen-kernel remove nonfree software from the kernel.
- 2007 BLAG's deblob and Linux-libre
- 2008 FSFLA's deblob-check
Be Free!
- FSFLA campaign to promote software freedom and social responsibility as a way to promote free software.
Linux is not free software
Includes code without sources, under various licenses.
Network driver with 100+Kb of actual binary executable code with a clear proprietary license.
Another network driver from the same vendor is 300Kb of "data" under a license that allows combination with only the GPL and not other free software licenses.
Liberating Linux
Remove:
- sourceless code
- incompatibly-licensed data/code
- requests for non-free software
- corresponding info from docs
- incomprehensible code/data?
The result is suitable for 100% free systems.
Scripts detect proprietary blobs in the kernel.
Source tarballs tracking upstream Linux.
Pristine builds for popular distros. Ali's Freedom Shoppe.
Builds tracking upstream distributions.
Challenges
- Distros want/need popularity
- Blobs attract more users?
- Incentive to betray users, weaken communities
- Prisoners' dilemma, iterated
- Defection feeds the aggressors
- Tragedy of the commons
Adoption
- gNewSense
- BLAG
- FREEE :-(
- Trisquel
- Musix GNU+Linux (underway)
- Dyne:bolic (next release)
- Users of other distros