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Agreed.
I appreciate that they are blobfree but "no copyleft" has nothing to do with that. Actually, I think Copyleft Linux could not include blobs?
Blobs that are redistributable is still included. The 0x things are redistributable under BSD 3 clause license, with an additional clause prohibiting reverse engineering
Which is much free than the gpl
What??
Copyleft means FOSS that can only be used as FOSS. Any changes made need to be published etc. Blobs are not even FOSS, so they can only be implemented as Linux is not FOSS.
What does that mean? You can redistribute binary code that is not Open source, and you are also not allowed to find the source code? How is that free?
I think you shouldn't argue on why bsd use the bsd license because no one would care, and I will stop here
We should focus on learning and programming, just like Vietnamese these day should be good on Marxism-Leninism that's taught in the university/college to have the right mindset and should't care about anarchism, liberalism, etc and focus on whatever science to help the country.
You can redistribute binary code that is not Open source under a free license
there isn't a problem making OpenBSD nonfree in their opinion, the only problem is they cannot fix the binary code if it have bugs and "can't confirm if the blob contain malware"
FOSS???????????
This is source code.
They can exist side by side with linux (like you install gcc and openssh on your linux). I saw microcode are packaged, not installed by default (about arch linux)
If they are linked against linux they must be gpl
Can you read the gpl or that's just long and right and everyone must use it to support GNU
using a license that promote giving code back (put restriction on redistribution) for coreutils, gcc, libc, etc.. has borned Chimera Linux (which point out the quality problem of GNU (in code!) by using BSD userland and LLVM and musl)