On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 09, Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> wrote: > > The whole system has to be DFSG-free. Debian won't compromise on that. > Which DFSG? The original one or the "clarified" one? Give it up, Marco. Your little tantrums aren't cute. > > I have been thinking about the blob problem for a while. I propose to > > remove blobs from the driver, and store them as files in initramfs (the > > kernel-internal filesystem created by the stuff in /usr/src/linux*/usr) > > or initrd.img. At boot time, the drivers would look for the blobs and > > You may want to take a look at debian-legal, because some people there > think that even free drivers for hardware devices which need an > externally loaded firmware are not acceptable for main. I presume you're referring to drivers which are useless without a non-free firmware blob. We should treat them exactly the same way as any other Free software which is useless without some non-free component, and stick it in contrib. - Matt
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