Is there any non free thing in Ubuntu Kernel

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Mon, February 6, 2012 17:45, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 21:54:29 +0530
> subhajit bandyopadhyay <subhajit.cool108 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm optimist. I think one day we'll get Ubuntu without any non free
>> software.
>
> I believe what you want is called, "Debian."

Correct.
I ran vrms on my Debian box and all I got was this:

amedee at intrepid:~$ vrms
              Non-free packages installed on intrepid

sun-java6-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
(architecture
sun-java6-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
(architecture

  2 non-free packages, 0.2% of 950 installed packages.


It seems like I could do without Sun's Java because I have OpenJDK installed.

amedee at intrepid:~$ sudo update-java-alternatives -l
java-6-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun


But that's just userspace software. The original question was about the
kernel. The kernel is GPL licensed so by definition it does not contain
any non-free stuff.
I hope that this answers the original question once and for all, without
any further tangents.

Anyway, the OP was trolling. This is a technical support mailing list, not
a philosophical discussion list. Please take such questions to the
bikeshed.

-- 
Amedee