Re: Integration with QubesOS & FSDG

[Tobias Alexandra Platen]

If we run QubesOS on POWER9 or future PowerISA 3.1 hardware, no non-
free blobs will be needed. I do not trust Intel and AMD anyway, so I
plan to migrate away from Radeon to a future freedom respecting GPU.

On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 23:41 +0000, Skyler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Would you be able to accept pull requests which add packages to
> integrate Guix with QubesOS as a guest? I ask because QubesOS does
> not (and does not intend to) comply with the Free System Distribution
> Guidelines, the primary problem being that their dom0 includes binary
> blobs. Guix maintains the FSDG standard, which is a good thing. But
> part of the FSDG says that the distribution cannot "steer users
> towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or
> encourage them to do so". I could see a reasonable argument that
> providing compatibility with a non-free system steers users in that
> direction, but it seems like a grey area.
> 
> Projecting further into the future, I would expect that packaging all
> of QubesOS infrastructure in Guix, so that Guix could run as dom0
> with Guix guests, would be fine, because then users would not need to
> install any non-free software in order to use these features (the
> code developed specifically for QubesOS is free software, mostly
> GPL2+ from what I've seen).
> 
> Any feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Skyler