Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Ethical hosting means Free Software hosting

[Ian Jackson]

Andrew Ferguson writes ("Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Ethical hosting means Free 
Software hosting"):
> One thing that bothers me regarding the criteria is the inconsistency 
> between this and the criteria for 'Fully Free Operating Systems'. With 
> the repo criteria, GitLab is acceptable despite GitLab.com running on 
> proprietary software and showing pages advertising the proprietary 
> GitLab EE. With the operating system criteria, Debian is not endorsed 
> because non-free is 'not thoroughly separated from the main Debian 
> distribution' and 'the installer in some cases recommends these nonfree 
> firmware files'. I feel that this inconsistency should be addressed.

While I agree that Debian ought to be more careful about how it
presents non-free to users, I agree with the general thrust of your
comments.

Ian.