Re: Firmwares left

[LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@polyu.edu.hk>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:45 +0200, Frederik Schueler <fs@debian.org> said: 
>
> > Hello, as far as the GPL and BSD licensed firmwares are concerned, the
> > licenses of these firmwares are compliant with the DFSG and will not
> > be castrated from the kernel, see the GR007/2006 discussion.
>
> > As for the rest: our priority is free software, who cares about users?
>
> > tg3: Drop. The firmware should be pruned and the driver deactivated
> > until someone shows up with a patch upstream accepts.
>
>         While I am a user of this driver (my laptop came with a broadcom
>  gigabit card),  I do appreciate your caring for user freedoms and
>  dropping this driver.
>
>         thanks for doing the right thing, even if it means I can't use
>  lan0. 
>
>         manoj

Hello,

From from a user's point of view, as this chip is on quite a number of 
mobos, some users will suddenly find they loose internet connection 
after a kernel upgrade. Please consider making an announcement on d-a 
(and may be d-u) list so that users do know what's happening.

Regards,
ST
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