Contributor Eldmannen

Try to prevent license proliferation.

License proliferation is a problem in the open source ecosphere that occurs when a piece of software is licensed under a custom vanity license instead of an established standard license such as the GPL or BSD license.

The main problem is that re-use of source code sometimes can become impossible due to license incompatibility. There are other problems too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation

Ubuntu can do this by not including software which uses vanity licenses.

Binary blobs provide us with short-term convenience.
However, in the long run they are bad.

We should strive to progressively eliminate binary blobs. One blob at a time.
The inclusion of binary blobs are sending the wrong signals. It is not something we should encourage.

If the amount of binary blobs grow then I think that is very dangerous.

* Blobs cannot be supported by developers.
* Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.
* Blobs cannot be improved.
* Blobs cannot be audited
* Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus less portable.
* Blobs are quite often massively bloated.

Blobs can contain malicious code and backdoors and you may never know. You cant trust them.

Inclusion of blobs are sacrificing our values.

It is giving up essential freedom to purchase a little temporary convenience.
Pleasant in the short-term but bad in the long term.

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