[LUG.ro] El próximo Debian sale con kernel libre

["Sebastián D. Criado"]

http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101215

December 15th, 2010

The Debian project has been working in removing non-free firmware from
the Linux kernel shipped with Debian for the past two release cycles. At
the time of the releases of Debian 4.0 "Etch" and 5.0 "Lenny", however,
it was not yet possible to ship Linux kernels stripped of all non-free
firmware bits. Back then we had to acknowledge that freedom issues
concerning Linux firmware were not completely sorted out.

We have nonetheless kept on working on splitting away non-free bits from
the Linux kernel, thanks to the work of the Debian Kernel team and
various Linux upstream developers. We are proud to announce that, to the
best of our knowledge, all issues are solved and that we will be able to
deliver a Linux kernel which is completely Free, according to the Debian
Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), with Debian Squeeze. We hereby reaffirm
Free Software as one of our priorities, as documented in the Debian
Social Contract.

In accordance with the Debian Social Contract, we acknowledge that some
users require the use of works that do not conform to the DFSG and that
those works might include non-free firmware bits. For the time being, we
have added to the "non-free" area of our archives alternative
installation images and additional packages for Debian Squeeze, that
include non-free firmware bits needed to enable specific pieces of
hardware. They are not part of Debian, they should be looked for
explicitly by interested users, and we cannot support them to the same
extent of Free firmware as we do not have access to the corresponding
source code. We encourage hardware manufacturers to release only
DFSG-free firmware and we cannot accept other kind of firmware as part
of Debian.
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