Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
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- Subject: Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels
- From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 13:46:45 +0100
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Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> 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.
This does present certain logistical problems for producing installers.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org
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