Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

[Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>]

Glenn Maynard wrote:

> "contrib" exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, "we will never
> make the system depend on an item of non-free software".  Moving something
> from contrib to main that does, in fact, depend on such an item is a pretty
> basic violation of Debian's principles.
>  
It's not clear to me that the system depends on a non-free component if 
a single BLOB-requiring driver fails to install because the BLOB is not 
present, leaving the overall system working except that it can't drive 
one piece of hardware. The system depends on a non-free component if the 
whole system won't work without it.

   Thanks

   Bruce

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