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Mark Shuttleworth: Well the first thing is that that new flavor of Ubuntu won’t just insist on freedom for software. In many cases there is software and content in distributions today – in Ubuntu and other distributions like Debian – which is not free. So for example very few pieces of firmware ship their source code, so this new flavor of Ubuntu won’t ship any firmware unless we can also ship the source code for it.

In regards to content: There are kinds of content out there – like PDFs and so on – which are not editable but where there is an editable source document effectively, and we won’t include this content unless we include the source document. Things like video content: Well, an edited video is nice, but what about the source materials? So this version of Ubuntu will not include any video footage unless it also includes either the source content or access to the source content. By this we are extending the concept of "freedom" to cover not just applications software, all the way down to firmware and content which is further than any other distribution goes.