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From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
www/distros common-distros.html |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:33:24 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 11/02/27 23:33:24
Modified files:
distros : common-distros.html
Log message:
Linux kernel phrasing; mention OpenBSD as having a no-BSD-blob policy,
since they do
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.26&r2=1.27
Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.26
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -u -b -r1.26 -r1.27
--- common-distros.html 24 Feb 2011 00:27:06 -0000 1.26
+++ common-distros.html 27 Feb 2011 23:33:01 -0000 1.27
@@ -153,15 +153,15 @@
nonfree programs in their ports system. In addition, their kernels
include nonfree firmware blobs.</p>
-<p>Nonfree firmware programs in Linux are called “blobs,”
-and that's how we use the term. In BSD parlance, the term
-“blob” means something else: a nonfree driver. Some BSD
-distros have the policy of not including those. That is the right
-policy, as regards drivers; but when the developers say these distros
-“contain no blobs,”, it causes a misunderstanding. They
-are not taking about firmware blobs.</p>
+<p>Nonfree firmware programs used with the Linux kernel are called
+“blobs,” and that's how we use the term. In BSD parlance,
+the term “blob” means something else: a nonfree driver.
+OpenBSD and perhaps other BSD distros have the policy of not including
+those. That is the right policy, as regards drivers; but when the
+developers say these distros “contain no blobs,”, it causes
+a misunderstanding. They are not taking about firmware blobs.</p>
-<p> No BSD distro has policies against proprietary binary-only
+<p>No BSD distro has policies against proprietary binary-only
firmware that might be loaded even by free drivers.</p>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
of this article.</p>
-<p>Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/02/24 00:27:06 $
+$Date: 2011/02/27 23:33:01 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>