Re: LCC and blobs

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

md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>> differently depending on the presence of additional software -- the
>> kernel, for example, or the firmware.
> I'm not doing this either.

Great.  Then the driver operates differently depending on the presence
of additional software -- it needs a Linux kernel and the firmware.
Without either of those, it does not operate.  This is a dependency.
Dependency on non-free software keeps a package out of main.

The firmware is non-free, so off it goes.  If the driver could operate
some hardware without that software -- say, because the operation of
that firmware was embodied in the hardware -- then it could go in main.

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu