Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
>
>> But the functionality of the driver is a function of the functionality
>> of the device.
>
> The functionality of a program is a function of the functionality of
> the compiler that compiles it

And Debian requires that its software be compilable with free software
compilers.  That's a Build-Depends relation.

> (and, independently, of the CPU that executes it).

And the CPU is hardware, so not covered by the DFSoftwareG.

>  These are not a useful observations.

On the contrary, I've found them very useful.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu