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Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib



On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:33 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So if any of the hardware that requires non-free firmware to operate and
> currently works in etch was to not work with Lenny, then that's
> completely unacceptable?
> 
> If that's the case, then there is no way EVER to make Debian comply with
> the DFSG since you aren't going to get free firmware for all those
> devices.

Um, yes there is.  We could do the same thing we do with codecs, file
formats, and all the rest--in the absence of support with free software,
we don't support it in Debian.

Thomas



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