On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > Because the GPL says so. Distribution of firmware binaries under GPL is > just not legal. I do not believe that this is obvious. I understand that FSF disagrees, and considers firmwares to be just "data". > For 99% it doesn't have any effect. The number of drivers realy > needing the blob is very small. Not so small: the drivers for most WiFi network adapters, many bluetooth adapters, all USB DSL modems, most (all?) DVB receivers, most 3D video cards are just the ones I can think about right now. -- ciao, | Marco | [9703 ilLqSQlwJUtvw]
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