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Re: LCC and blobs



Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:

> A BIOS is normally stored in binary form as executable or
> interpretable code plus associated data.  Most people would call
> executable code in binary form "software;" Debian uses a broader
> definition than that.  The real question is why you think that
> executable binary data is not software.

A firmware image is not software to the system on which Debian runs.
What it is to another system (e.g. some PCI card) is irrelevant.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com



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