Following FSF Philosophy?

[David Symons]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 16:46 -0400, Scott Sweeny wrote:
> > I'm interested in these:
> > linux-386                 Complete Linux kernel on 386.
> >
> > The Linux kernel is non-free?  I haven't checked the licenses but find
> > myself surprised.
> 
> I'm not intimately familiar with what vrms checks for, but I would
> guess that it's flagged because linux-386 depends on restricted
> modules and the like.
> 
> ~Scott

You got it Scott.

linux-386 has two dependencies:

- linux-image-386 (which is Free) and
- linux-restricted-modules-386 (which is non-Free)

Hence linux-386 is considered non-Free.

Cheers, Dave.
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