[blag-whereto] Fw: Suite/~Blag /general/reply/Ineiev

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  1, 2014, Junichirô <junichiro at zenblagger.org> wrote:

> freed-ora-freedom: Checks at install-time that none of the non-Free
> packages in Fedora are installed, configures kernel-libre as default
> kernel for future kernel updates, and avoids the accidental
> installation of most such packages in the future.

That is true, but it's not enough to meet the Free System Distribution
Guidelines.

If it did, it would have to conflict with most (all?) browsers shipped
in the upstream distro BLAG is based on, and a number of other packages
there.

That's because the kernel and the non-Free firmware packages are not the
only reasons why that upstream distro doesn't satisfy the FSDG; that's
why we need BLAG and similar distros.

As Linus once wrote, “a kernel by itself gets you nowhere.”
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01

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