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Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-freefirmware



On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:02:13 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > with buggy firmware. The presence of it could trigger its use. (If
> > there's no firmware provided in the device at all, I don't consider it
> > "firmware" if it's Debian's turn to provide it.)
>
> In most of these cases there is no firmware on the device at all.
> Are you saying that in that case having it in main is acceptable to you?

No. Rather the opposite. That's what I meant with:

> As soon as the firmware distributed with Debian becomes the
> preferred form of making the hardware run, the firmware should be
> considered as "usual" software. [...] we can't distribute it, for
> the same reasons as we don't distribute other software in binary
> form.

bye,
  Roland

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