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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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They actually explain why they don't endorse Debian in the link the person above you added. Apparently since you /can/ enable the non-free repos in the installer, it doesn't classify as 100% free. I don't agree with the statement and find it weird, but that's how they defined it.
Yeah. The Debian Free Software Guidelines are actually very strict if you read them. The FSF are just purists, even if 100% free software is the default. I don't really understand it.
I somewhat agree with their mentality on post 2022 Debian since they had changed the default and made it harder to disable non-free from the start but, from what I understood by reading the FAQ page, even prior to bookworm it wasn't endorsed due to having the toggle in the first place, which I find super weird.
If you don't make a conscious decision to disallow free software it becomes too easy to normalize its inclusion.
They probably predicted (correctly) that this attitude would eventually lead to the decision that they ultimately made in 2022.