Le 03/01/2026 à 19:09, Andy Smith a écrit :
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firmware-b43-* is an oddity.
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I'm still a bit confused. If Debian can't distribute them, how come they
are in netinst? Or do the two things not contain the same files despite
having the same name?
Hello Andy,
If I recall correctly (I have used it long ago), the b43* firmware
packages do not include a firmware but a utility to download a driver
from Braodcom and extract the firmware from it. This being due to
Broadcom redistributing policy being restrictive. So, legally, the
firmware is downloaded by the user from Broadcom, it is not distributed
by Debian.
This makes sense for a non-live Debian distro, but does not make sense
for a Debian Live distro because essentially it is read-only.
