Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:45:24PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > For more info, read the debian-vote mailing lists archive.
> > > > 
> > > > And welcome to debian politics :)
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I wonder what this means for the firmware blob issues..
> > 
> > Firmware is software, they can't be considered as data or documentation
> > by any stretch of the imagination, so they still need to go, i think.
> 
> I can't see that. Properly licensed firmware was ok under the old
> release policy/SC interpretation, and the vote simply reverts to
> that one until sarge releases.

Please tell me in how far you can consider firmware as something else
than software ? It is a list of instructions or whatever, and is
executed by a processor on the target device, is it not ? 

IF there is other reasons not to consider it as needing to be free, or
if we are ready to make a compromise, then ok, but the firmware is not
software clause should be really hard to defend, as opposed to RFC not
being software, or fonts or whatever.

Unless i misunderstand totally what firmware is.

Friendly,

Sven Luther