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Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel



Bastian Blank wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>> how can you consider it as non-program. It is indeed composed of machine
>> code destined to run on the controller of the device the driver is
>> written for.
> 
> This is incorrect. I know firmware[tm] blobs which only includes data.

Please name them.  I could likely be convinced that *those* firmware blobs
do not need "source code".  That's different from *all* firmware blobs.

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