Jason Self wrote: > I should probably add on that this position comes from my interaction > with the FSF in 2010: When LibreWRT was founded in 2010 (before it > later merged into libreCMC) we submitted a similar question to the > FSF,as to if it was sufficient for the LibreWRT build scripts (which > would be run by the person building the firmware image from source > and would have completely automated, just like how someone might > instruct Guix to build from source) to download Linux and then run > the Linux-libre deblobbing scripts on it vs having the build scripts > instead download tarballs that were already cleaned up. I can't seem > to find the email from back then but the response was that we needed > to use already cleaned-up tarballs, not ask the user to clean up the > software afterward even if automated. So that was what we did. Guix > should do something similar. I haven't been able to find this conversation in my email. As it seems to be directly relevant to Guix, since it seems to also be the exact same method they use, I have emailed the FSF asking if they can locate this in their ticketing system and to re-send the conversation to me. More to come.