In response to Stanley, Russ Allbery pointed out that Software, which is also a part of the contract.
Network it is hard for some to see how that advances the cause of free " non-free works are not a part of Debian".īut the problem at hand is that potential users may not even beĪble to install Debian (or use it once installed) if they cannot access the Social Contract (which contains the DFSG) specifically notes that Software Guidelines (DFSG) non-free licenses do not fit within those Debian has a set of idealsĪbout the kinds of software it distributes, enshrined in the Debian Free That is, of course, the crux of the matter. Why compete with that andĬompromise Debian's ideals at the same time? It can be argued that for users who valueĬonvenience more, Ubuntu already exists. Thisīoils down to a debate over whether the Debian community valuesĬonvenience over ideals. It contains proprietary closed-source software I don't want. The one you say "works for all users" doesn't "work" for me because Is a rather strange situation Emanuele Rocca put it this way: Images with non-free firmware for Debian, as Holger Levsen noted īlog post that he uses to rediscover those images when he needs them. While they are hard to find, there are unofficial Out that there are two open bugs ( one fromįrom 2016) that are related, so the problem is hardly a new one. Netinst image with non-free firmware, Sven Joachim said, though heĪdding a link under the big download button that would lead users toĪlternate images containing non-free firmware. Need non-free firmware to make the network adapter work. Network install ("netinst") CD image when clicked. Limiting the adoption of your OS by people like me who are interested inĬurrently has a prominent "Download" button that starts to retrieve a " The current policy of hiding other versions of Debian is That Debian is shooting itself in the foot by not prominently offering more He trackedĭown the DVD version of the distribution and installed that, but worried Mechanism because the WiFi device required non-free firmware. Running Windows 10, but could not use the normal network installation He wanted to install the distribution on a laptop that was To the debian-devel mailing list about problems he encountered trying to Surely Dan Pal did not expect the torrent of responses he received to his Non-free status, as a recent discussion in the Debian community shows. That are not willing to officially ship said firmware because of its That, as might be guessed, is a bit of a problem for distributions The network may need to get non-free firmware directly from the installation
Required in order to install a Linux distribution, so an installation over To use some hardware, such as network devices (WiFi in particular), audio It is an unfortunate fact of life that non-free firmware blobs are required
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