Doesn even Debian include some non-free software?
No. We do allow some non-free packages to use our distribution infrastructure, but they are not actually part of Debian proper. (There are some requirements on licenses for such non-free programs, so debian-legal does sometimes examine the licenses of non-free programs for distributability; it is not a priority though.) The existence of this non-free area can lead to confusion, so some members of Debian would like to remove non-free from our servers. On the other hand, many packages in non-free have migrated into Debian proper when their authors changed their almost-free licenses to make them actually free, and some have had their functionality painlessly migrated to newly available free alternatives. For this reason, other Debian developers want to retain the status quo.
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