On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:36:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le mardi 22 mars 2005 à 17:46 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > * Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050322 16:51]: > > > Debian has already decided to destroy what it is by giving in to the > > > crackpots who insist that everything is software. > > > > You mean some people failed to destroy Debian though loudly and very > > often repeating the claim that some types of software do not count as > > software? > > Why should people always be so counterproductive ? > > I'm also not satisfied with the non-productiveness of the removal of > useful documentation. I'm also ashamed that some hardware doesn't work > out of the box on Debian because we decided that firmware are software > and thus should meet DFSG.
Notice that the plan is to have non-free drivers in non-free, as both .debs and .udebs, and thus users can just download them from there, and feed them to d-i through floppies or netbooting, and i guess some may even include them on custom cds with added non-free. Notice also, that technically such non-free modules can only be made once upstream has clarified the copyright on those files and clearly excluded the binary firmware blobs from the GPL coverage. Once that is done, it only constitutes mere aggregation and is thus distributable in non-free. This is why we voted to keep non-free back then, so let's make use of it for non-free stuff. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
