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| + | * [http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/ Other Libre Planet 2009 presentations] | ||
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= Freeing the kernel and the Linux-libre project = | = Freeing the kernel and the Linux-libre project = | ||
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| + | http://fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/Linux-libre.en.pdf | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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The result is suitable for 100% free systems. | The result is suitable for 100% free systems. | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | Scripts detect proprietary blobs in the kernel. |
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| + | Source tarballs tracking upstream Linux. | ||
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| + | Pristine builds for popular distros. Ali's Freedom Shoppe. | ||
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| + | Builds tracking upstream distributions. | ||
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| + | == Adoption == | ||
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| + | * gNewSense | ||
| + | * BLAG | ||
| + | * FREEE :-( | ||
| + | * Trisquel | ||
| + | * Musix GNU+Linux (underway) | ||
| + | * Dyne:bolic (next release) | ||
| + | * Users of other distros | ||
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| + | == Challenges == | ||
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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 | ||
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| + | [[Category:LP09]] | ||
[[Category:LP09 High Priority Projects]] | [[Category:LP09 High Priority Projects]] | ||
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| + | == How can we change this picture == | ||
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| + | * Break the myth of breakage | ||
| + | * Lead by example, "Be Free" | ||
| + | * Educate users, to shift the incentives | ||
| + | * Seek credible commitment among distros | ||
| + | * Take it upstream, uphill? | ||
Latest revision as of 06:51, 22 April 2009
Contents
Freeing the kernel and the Linux-libre project
http://fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/Linux-libre.en.pdf
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.
Adoption
- gNewSense
- BLAG
- FREEE :-(
- Trisquel
- Musix GNU+Linux (underway)
- Dyne:bolic (next release)
- Users of other distros
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
How can we change this picture
- Break the myth of breakage
- Lead by example, "Be Free"
- Educate users, to shift the incentives
- Seek credible commitment among distros
- Take it upstream, uphill?
