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



bts@alum.mit.edu wrote:

>>>Huh?  If a driver requires a firmware blob be copied from a driver CD,
>> Please repeat after me: "drivers do not require firmwares, hardware
>> devices require firmwares".
>And the driver requires a functioning hardware device.  Thus, the
This is not an use of the verb "require" I'm familiar with.

>loadable firmware is in the dependency tree of the software Debian
>ships.
I can't find which part of policy estabilishes this criteria.

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ciao,
Marco



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