Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Matthias Klump wrote:
>
>I wonder if we should widen the scope of a "non-free-firmware"
>component a little, to "anything non-free you sometimes unfortunately
>need to make your hardware usable".
>
>This would mean having a "non-free-hardware" section instead, which
>could possibly also include non-free drivers for certain software
>components later.

Please let's *not* mix things up like that. A number of us already had
this discussion at DebConf:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00622.html

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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