On 2016-12-20 15:42, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
The FSF will never endorse (that is, list as free in their site) a distro containing pointers to non-free software. No matter how many information we provide about it being not free or whether it's disabled by default.
This is true. However, we cannot make such a jump in one step. First we start by making proprietary repositories more clearly marked so that users can disable them. Once we get feedback for that, we can consider making it opt-in. Once we get feedback for *that* we can consider removing them from the base install. And once we finally get feedback from that we can consider purging them from OBS.
Will it take time? Yes. Is it worth the work? IMO yes, but I understand that other people wouldn't agree.
I would certainly disagree with removal of the non-oss repo. You would also need to remove mentions or links to the proprietary nvidia driver, the vmware driver... I would have to seek for another distro.
Not saying we should aim for it (I don't think so), just clarifying expectations.
I think we should ask ourselves what proprietary software we are hosting and how many people actually use it. Given openSUSE's interesting legal position, we're actually one of the more likely mainstream distributions that could make the jump to FSF approval.
I don't care about the FSF approval, if that is what it takes. If you wish, branch another distro version to TW and Leap to offer a new "free" release, without killing the usability of the current versions. -- Cheers/Saludos Carlos E. R. (testing openSUSE Leap 42.2, at Minas-Anor) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org