Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Thomas Hood writes:
> Such a driver doesn't require non-free peripheral software in order to be
> compiled or in order to execute.  Neither can it be called a "wrapper" of
> the software that gets loaded onto the peripheral.

I wrote: 
> Provided that it does substantially more than just load the peripheral
> software.

Herbert Xu writes:
> Is that before or after loading the firmware?

I mean that it should be a real driver and not, for example, a mere wrapper
for some proprietary code to be loaded into a printer.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI