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Re: New section for firmware.



Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 15:27 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit :
> > How about ???Software that is not executed on the host CPU??? ? That can
> > include e.g. non-free documentation, which clearly doesn???t belong in the
> > same place than nVidia binary drivers.
> 
> While I think that non-dfsg-free documentation also merits to be split
> off from non-free, I don't think we should generalize this too much;
> e.g.  clearly non-free copyrighted artwork or data should probably stay
> in non-free. 

Why? In essence, it is very similar to a firmware. It can also be
necessary (e.g. for game data) to make free software work, in a similar
way to the kernel with firmware. And I know that installing it is not
going to blow away my system with untrusted code.

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