Make clear that we ship non-free firmware
Originally created by @BitingBird on #9353 (Redmine)
Technically, for the curious: we use Debian’s Linux kernel (that is
fully free), and install binary firmware from non-free on top of that.
The thing is, if Tails doesn’t work out-of-the-box on the computer(s)
they have available, most potential users will simply use something
else, that will 1. just work (“thanks” to the inclusion of binary
firmware); and 2. be less safe in the vast majority of
real-world cases.
Also, most hardware that doesn’t
require proprietary firmware to be injected into it at runtime is
simply embedding such proprietary firmware, often in a read-only
manner. Not only this arguably doesn’t provide much more security than
injecting proprietary firmware at runtime, and it prevents hardware
vendors from fixing (potentially security-relevant) bugs in the
firmware once it’s been shipped to users.
This could be added to https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/license
Feature Branch: doc/9353-firmware