Ubuntu is not free.

[Daniel Carrera]

On Sat, 2006-08-07 at 15:55 +0200, meets at free.fr wrote:
> Hello Oli,
> It seems to rely on GPL, because of the frequent words 'Gnu/Linux' on
> the Ubuntu website pages.

Are you complaining that Ubuntu says GNU/Linux? Would you prefer that we
just call it Linux? Do you believe that saying GNU/Linux means that
everything in the Ubuntu CD is GPL?

> Either Ubuntu is free, so it is really made 100% with free componants,...
> or It invents and publish a new license,

That doesn't make any sense.

> Actually, Ubuntu pretends to be what it isn't. 

Why? From the front page, which you qoute:

"Ubuntu Philosophy: ... that people should have the freedom to customise
and alter their software in whatever way they see fit."

This is not a promise that absolutely everything on the CD will be GPL.
It does imply that Ubuntu makes every effort to use free software, that
it doesn't develop software that don't let people alter, etc. I think
that Ubuntu delivers on that implied promise. If Ubuntu is entirely free
software except for some kernel modules, I think Ubuntu has done an
admirable job. Why don't you go complain to another distribution that
hasn't gone as far as Ubuntu? I'm under the impression that in this
regard Ubuntu is better than almost every other distribution. Go talk to
SUSE, Linspire and Xandros, how about that?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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  unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men."
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