Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:12:00 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 874qerl8an.fsf@becket.becket.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] E1DH005-0003Zh-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (Matthew Garrett's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:46:21 +0100")
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Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> 1) Distribute the non-free firmware. Our users are happy.
> 2) Don't distribute the non-free firmware. Our users either download the
> non-free firmware from elsewhere (bad) or replace their hardware with
> parts that have the non-free firmware in flash (worse - no improvement
> in freedom, and we've made them waste money and material)

I'm ok with (1), provided we do it in the non-free archive.

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References:
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)
  - From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)
  - From: "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)
  - From: Raphael Hertzog <raphael@ouaza.com>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)
  - From: "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)
  - From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
- Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
  - From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

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