Moglen on kernel firmware blobs

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6028746-2.html?tag=st.next

Moglen:

I would distinguish the blobs from the proprietary drivers in the
kernel. If the kernel's terms were unambiguously GPL, which they are
apparently not, (proprietary drivers) would be forbidden. The
blobs--though they are ethically objectionable to the Free Software
Foundation, which believes that users ought to know what's running--are
different because they are separate works when executed running in
separate computers. From the point of view of the GPL work called the
Linux kernel, they're just data.

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ciao,
Marco