upcoming release of Squeeze,
[Debian will be even Free-er](http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101215). Exceptions
to the [DFSG](http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines) for non-free
-firmware blobs, which have been granted in the past, will no longer be
+Linux firmware blobs, which have been granted in the past, will no longer be
granted. Starting from Squeeze, Debian will be Free the bottom up, no matter
where your own definition of <q>software</q> ends.
your **kudos** to all the teams who made this possible:
* the [Debian kernel team](http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel) who worked for
- the past 2 release cycles to split free-vs-non-free firmware bits and monitor
- new releases to avoid freedom regressions;
+ the past 2 release cycles, together with Linux upstream, to split
+ free-vs-non-free firmware bits and monitor new releases to avoid freedom
+ regressions;
* the [Debian CD team](http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCd) who basically
"forked" different media production lines, for different user needs wrt
firmware;
Having been trol^W asked several times in the past about the "real freeness" of
Debian at events, talks, and the like, I consider this episode to be a very
-nice story to tell. While we have granted exceptions for firmware at the time
-of [Etch](http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_007) and
+nice story to tell. While we have granted exceptions for Linux firmware at the
+time of [Etch](http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_007) and
[Lenny](http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003) releases, during this time
Debian people have worked, **together with upstream**, to make this final
result possible. All this work has improved the situation not only for Debian