On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:01:34PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: <snip> > non-free isn't part of Debian. Using loadable firmware is becoming > increasingly common in hardware design. In the fairly near future, most > modern hardware is likely to require it in order to allow installation. > > > It would be a better course of action to solve those problems than to > > deliberately mislabel non-free firmware as free. > > I'm not suggesting that we claim that firmware is Free, but putting it > in non-free is: > > (a) going to result in an awkward situation for installation, and
The awkwad situation would be that d-i is part of Debian, and non-free isn't, so anything in non-free can not be part of the installer? But having a (non-free) firmware section with components of that in the installer is ok? Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
