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Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion




Le 8 mars 2025 13:43:26 GMT+01:00, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> a écrit :

> Having source code for the
>microcode would help gain confidence in it, and is the reasonable
>request.  If the request is denied, I would consider the vendor not
>trustworthy and look into options.

How about you try asking the vendors for that instead of speculating ?

Unless you come back with very unexpected good news you definitely need to look for alternatives.

As for Debian as a project we've voted on the topic not so long ago and decided we want to ship available firmware with the default installer. I don't see which new bits of information would make us vote differently now.


Happy hacking,
--
Aurélien


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