Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS a écrit :
> Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>:
>
>
> > There is an argument that the whole of Debian belongs in 'contrib' rahter
> > than 'main' because there is no entirely free (as in speech) machine on
> > which it can run.
>
>
> I think there are free CPU designs around and you could probably
> compile a free emulator to run on one of them.
FYI, you don't even need an emulator to get a free CPU. There is an 
implementation of the Sparc v8 processor called Leon-2, licensed under 
GNU LGPL. The project was initially started by the European Space 
Agency. The VHDL code is available, so you just need an FPGA.

Aurelien

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