On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:22:54PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig scribbled: [snip] > > > So, if no free alternative exists, any proprietary program (whether we > > > have a legal right to distribute or not) can be in Debian if someone > > > packages it. (Don't respond with "I'm not saying that", because you > > > are.) > > Am I? Where? Where am I saying that an illegal program should be > > distributed? AutoCAD was given as an example - the example didn't include > > discussion about the legal rights to distribute that. I assumed that, for > > the sake of discussion, the person had the right to distribute the > > hypothetical AutoCAD. So let me ammend my statement, just for you: > > I was referring to the tg3 driver. Debian did not have any legal right Ok, understood. > to distribute the firmware in it, yet you are saying it was > irresponsible to remove it. It was. There existed a patch that removed the firmware. marek
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