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Is GrapheneOS not actually FOSS? (grapheneos.social)

submitted 11 months ago by lunar_dust_222@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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In the specified comment GrapheneOS explicitly stated that they have no opposition against non-free binaries and proprietary programs. Doesn't Free software requires it to not host non free binaries? This is not even firmware

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Read the GNU definition of it:

The first part of it correctly explains that the only non-FOSS parts are firmware. The rest of it is unfortunately bullshit, because it claims that because GrapheneOS includes an optional method for installing Google services it's not degoogled. This makes absolutely no sense, by default there are no Google apps/services at all present on GrapheneOS and it never connects to Google servers. But yes, except for some required firmware GrapheneOS is fully FOSS.