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T o g g l e n a v i g a t i o n
● A b o u t ● A b o u t L i b r e P l a n e t ● M i s s i o n S t a t e m e n t ● F o u n d i n g d o c u m e n t s ● S u p p o r t t h i s C o m m u n i t y ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● A n t i - h a r a s s m e n t p o l i c y ● T e a m s ● A c t i v i s t s ● W i k i H e l p e r s ● L i b r e P l a n e t A r t i s t s ● F S F C o m m u n i t y T e a m ● L o c a l & S t u d e n t T e a m s ● C o n f e r e n c e s ● L i b r e P l a n e t C o n f e r e n c e ● N o n - o f f i c i a l ● G e t i n v o l v e d ● P a r t i c i p a t e ● D i s c u s s i o n c h a n n e l s ● E v e n t s ● L o g i n
F r o m L i b r e P l a n e t
J u m p t o : n a v i g a t i o n , s e a r c h
Freeing the kernel and the Linux-libre project
http://fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/Linux-libre.en.pdf
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.
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
Challenges
Distros want/need popularity
Blobs attract more users?
Incentive to betray users, weaken communities
Prisoners' dilemma, iterated
Defection feeds the aggressors
Tragedy of the commons
How can we change this picture
Break the myth of breakage
Lead by example, "Be Free"
Educate users, to shift the incentives
Seek credible commitment among distros
Take it upstream, uphill?
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=Alexandre_Oliva_(LP09)&oldid=4773 "
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