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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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[[Category:LP09 High Priority Projects]] | [[Category:LP09 High Priority Projects]] |
Revision as of 12:32, 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.
Adoption
- gNewSense
- BLAG
- FREEE :-(
- Trisquel
- Musix GNU+Linux (underway)
- Dyne:bolic (next release)
- Users of other distros