[wellylug] Distrowatch: the big 3 compared (SUSE/Fedora/Mandrake)

Jamie Baddeley wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Sat Jun 19 16:41:53 NZST 2004


On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 15:13, Wood Brent wrote:
> > 
> > Slackware, Debian and Gentoo? :)
> > 

> Do the above untainted distro's avoid including any tainted code from evil
> commercial organisations who sell their software?
> 
Yes. By default Debian does not install the non-free branch - which
contains many of the packages that contain licensing challenges. Of
course the user is able to add the non-free branch, but this is their
decision - not the distributions.

So, in answer to your question - yes. Well at least for Debian anyway.

jamie





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