::Are you saying that Debian's adherence to the philosophies of free software is only "slighly strict"? I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree! These are some indications of Debian being more than slightly strict when it comes to free software philosophies: 
 ::*Only FOSS software in the main archive, no binary blobs in the default installation: This is already pretty unique when it comes to Linux distributions as most other distros include binary blobs 
 ::*Open development: The development happens in the public; this is different from eg Ubuntu where Mir was developped without the public knowing about it  
 ::*Decision-making by the community: This also contrasts it with Ubuntu, where one company decides 
 ::So I think one could say that Ubuntu's adherence to free software philosophies are "slightly strict", but Debian's is definitely more than that. 
 ::You are also saying that there is a problem with respect to the terminology "GNU/Linux". Well, not according to the Free Software Foundation, the initiator of the GNU project. According to the Debian website: "The FSF explicitly requested that we call our system "Debian GNU/Linux"" - and that was when Debian still had binary blobs in its kernel.