Re: Free Software criteria -- about "Software distributions"

[GNU Herds work team]

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We have added the below criteria to be applied to "Software distributions", 
which are, maybe, another special case, as previously were specifications, 
protocols, etc.:

  "For software distributions,  they must not include any
   Non-Free Software or work to provide easy access to
   Non-Free Software, even if the default is all Free Software."


For example:

  * Ubuntu is Non-Free because it contains Non-Free Software.

  * Debian is Non-Free because it contains Non-Free Software BLOBs in
    the Linux kernel, like Ubuntu, and work to provide easy access to
    Non-Free Software.

  * OpenBSD is Free because it does not ship anything that is Non-Free
    Software. 


Note:  Not all Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs) are Non-Free Software, because of 
BLOBs can be data (not compiled source code) licensed under a FS license.



Let us know any if it is wrong, etc.

Best regards,
The work team
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