Re: firmware-linux package non-free?

[Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hallo Jürgen,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:41:21AM +0200, Jürgen Kertz wrote:
> I'm still a bit confused about this matter:
> The hardware support (in my case 3D acceleration) is present in lenny,  
> so the necessary "drivers" were in the kernel or in x.org, don't know  
> where exactly. So for lenny they were considered as free.
See

	http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003

for some details.

> The Radeon driver WIKI
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon
> tells me that the radeon drivers are licensed under MIT
>
> and
> http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
> tells me that MIT license is considered DFSGL compatible.
Even if the drivers are free, the firmware doesn't need to be.  If you
check the radeon driver is contained in the kernel image package as it
is free.  It's only the firmware that isn't.

Best regards
Uwe

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