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Alpine is also GNU-free afaik.
EDIT: Except for the GCC toolchain.
It's a lot of things-free, to be fair
Its still amazing how easy it is to use, you can get a desktop environment running in a couple of minutes and apk is insanely fast and easy
Would have probably tried as my main PC distro if NVIDIA drivers would work on it :(