Re: LCC and blobs
- To: Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>
- Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: LCC and blobs
- From: Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 03:36:04 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87u0q1eebv.fsf@aule.evenmere.org>
- In-reply-to: <41D5E555.7000405@derobert.net> (Anthony DeRobertis's message of "Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:48:37 -0500")
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Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> writes:
> Henning Makholm wrote:
>> Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>
>>
>>>That would, however, cover firmware and wind up sending X to
>>>contrib. So maybe: ... iff it is stored on the local machine's file
>>>system.
>> That would be my *intuitive* understanding of how the mail/contrib
>> difference works.
>>
>
> So would a web-based firmware loader, that never saved the firmware to
> disk allow the drivers to be in main?
Of course not. It's fetching software, then using that software. ICQ
software merely mentions messages, but doesn't use them.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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