Klaus Knopper knopper@knopper.net wrote:
Remember: Most people have no interest in "philosophy" and don't even care about licenses or legality, for that matter.
I think most people are ignorant about the philosophy and legality, but I have not found that most have "no interest" in it. They are just waiting to be awakened. A Knoppix-style CD that was had an aim of giving this wake-up call would be a useful tool.
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Knoppix contains some "non-free" programs like the Gimp "non-free" plugins, acroread and the Java RE, simply because they fulfil functionality that is not yet present, or not "allowed" in Free software components.
I think the GIMP non-free is only GIF writing support, which is obsolete for a long time now. We have xpdf and gv that does most of acroread's job and JREs like sablevm and orp, which I *think* are under free licences. (Check before use!)