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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