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Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.plain/templates}



Quoting Ben Hutchings (ben@decadent.org.uk):

> > > It may be pedantic, but the reason why most firmware are not available
> > > is because they do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines:
> > > they might be open source with a non compatible license.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I don't know for sure for the Linux kernel : all the non free
> > > firmware may also be closed source.
> 
> Indeed, we do not have source code for any of the non-free firmware.  In
> many cases it is under a BSDish licence and would thus become DFSG-free
> if the source code was released.


Can you comment (maybe later) on David's proposal so that I can decide
whether to include that paragraph in the reviewed templates.



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