Re: Social Contract: Practical Implications

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Michael Poole wrote:

>Then where do you get off trying to enforce the DFSG against firmware
>blobs but not against license texts, which are used by an enormously
>greater number of users than any firmware blob?  Calling something
>"silly" does not excuse it as a violation of the DFSG.

Failing to distribute the GPL means we don't distribute an OS. Failing
to distribute firmware means we support a smaller set of hardware. Do
you really see these two things as equivilent?

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