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To celebrate this great release, Ubuntu Chile will have two parties today:

• Santiago

Place: Elkika Providencia (Diego de Velázquez 2109 casi esquina Guardia Vieja

Time: 19:30

• Valparaíso

Place: Fuente Brazil (Valparaíso) Av. Brazil Esquina Sn. Ingnacio.  (Reference Map)

Time: 18:00

Remember to follow people wearing t-shirts like this one…

According to this email (spanish) Ubuntu includes non-free components by default, and users don’t know about this situation.

I’m using Hardy Heron up to date and I wanted to figure out about this potential problem using a useful tool: vrms.

mruiz@numbat:~$ vrms -s
human-icon-theme
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
linux-restricted-modules-common
linux-restricted-modules-generic
skype
tangerine-icon-theme
unrar

OK… let’s review the results.

linux-restricted-* is part of the restricted section. unrar is from multiverse and skype is a third-party package. But human-icon-theme and tangerine-icon-theme are part of main.

Then, I can assume that Ubuntu includes non-free components by default without inform to their users. Or not ?

EDIT: To be accurate, I changed non-free software by non-free components