On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:34 +0000, Robert Lemmen wrote: > hi everyone, > > the current situation concerning firmware blobs and dfsg-freeness is a > bit sad, among other things because there really isn't too much we can > do about it in the short run. so how about some practical proposal that > we can actually implement in a reasonable timeframe that gets us in a > better position to deal with this in the long run? my idea would be: > > firmware blobs without source get put into non-free, firmware blobs with > source but without the necessary free tools to generate the image end up > in contrib, firmware which is cryptographically signed and can tehrefore > not be modified goes to non-free. we relax the "main" requirements > insofar that a package that depends on another package in non-free may > stay in main (and doesn't have to go to contrib), if the contents of > that other package are not executed or used on the main/host computer'c > cpu, but on some additional hardware. (this would of course need to be > phrased a bit better, but you get the idea). Not possible, non-free is not enabled by default. Suggests/Recommends: would be technically feasible though. William
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