distribution is using non-free by default

[rjasmin]

kernel,firefox,thunderbird,openssl all are using non-free by default.

kernel uses wifi and other binary blobs not compatible with a FREE license.
Suggest changes made by the FSF in South America be used.They have a stripping script all made up for you.

firefox/thunderbird suffer from branding trademarks-- use Icedove and IceWeasel instead.
openssl is shipped with trademarked, patented encryption by default. Elliptic curves, IDEA, and similar
softwares given in the crypto package are NON-FREE. Suggest using the "hobbled" Fedora version by default instead. NOTE: this will break any app depending on said crypto, notably bitcoin and similar coin apps, as they use elliptic curves.The hobbled version is available by unpacking the Fedora openssl RPM. Current version is 1.0.1k from 22.

Since I am on Fedora 21, I cannot provide further details.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

To change the source package that this bug is filed about visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1471519/+editstatus and add the package name in the text box next to the word Package.

[This is an automated message. I apologize if it reached you inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]

[madbiologist (me-again)]

See http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

This is by choice.

If you are looking for a distribution that only uses free software, perhaps you can take a look at Trisquel, an Ubuntu fork:

http://trisquel.info/

There are also others recommended by the Free Software Foundation here:

http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html