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>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Alice wrote: |
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> Gentoo is about choice. if there are users that want to use deblob I |
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> don't see why we don't have to add the option. |
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Sure, choice is good. |
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My point is, when we changed the ACCEPT_LICENSE default to @FREE in |
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2019, there was a discussion if we could remove LICENSE="linux-firmware" |
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from kernel packages. The conclusion was that we could do so starting |
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with version 4.14, because in that version firmware was gone from the |
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Linux kernel tree. |
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Now, either our conclusion back then was right, then >=*-sources-4.14 |
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are under a free software license, and I don't understand what would be |
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the purpose of deblobbing. Could somebody more knowledgeable please |
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explain it to me? |
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Or our conclusion was wrong, which means that there are still non-free |
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files in the kernel tree. Again, could someone explain and show me |
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examples of such non-free files? |
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Ulrich |
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