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== Linux is not free software ==
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Includes code without sources, under various licenses.
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Network driver with 100+Kb of actual binary executable code with a clear proprietary license.
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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.
  
 
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Revision as of 11:18, 21 March 2009

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.

http://fsfla.org/se-libre

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.