Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> Regardless, the DFSG doesn't say anything about "unless the FCC has
> an annoying rule". We don't distribute non-free software in Debian.

To forestall yet another round of debate about software vs. firmware:
We don't distribute non-free *anything* in Debian. That's what our
users are promised, at any rate.

> And that's not some sort of choice we might make--it's a a choice we
> have already made.

Thank you.

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