[Gllug] So, that's the end of that, then

Chris Bell chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk
Wed Nov 24 12:57:28 UTC 2010


On Wed 24 Nov, John Hearns wrote:
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> There's also the small matter of Debian's fanatical devotion to the
> GPL - you're rather more likely to
> get non-free software packaged up for SuSE than Debian.

   The wireless hardware on my laptop uses non-free software provided via
the Debian non-free distribution, although it is not one click as I have to
agree to the software license conditions. Obviously this does not guarantee
that all possible non-free drivers are catered for in this way, but I can
see several other items listed.

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