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Re: firmware-linux package non-free?



On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:18:59AM +0200, Jürgen Kertz wrote:
>
> I was wondering if really all blobs in the firmware-linux package are  
> non-free.

Yes.

There are some instances of free firmware which we currently aren't
shipping at all; that will be fixed shortly with the addition of the
linux-firmware-free package.

> Especially the Radeon drivers would be nice if they could be in main, so  
> that they are present on the disks/images. Otherwise I would have to  
> install the non-free package after upgrading to squeeze on my machines  
> to get the same hardware support as in lenny.
>
> Is it possible to split that package?

There is no point; it all belongs in non-free.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
                   Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

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