Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

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Subject: Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:11:56 -0500
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20040430060827.GJ27955@grep.be> (Wouter Verhelst's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:08:27 +0200")
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Wouter Verhelst writes:
> That doesn't matter. To date, the policy has always been that a package
> must go in contrib if it has a dependency on something in non-free which
> has no *current* free implementation.

Then all binaries must go in non-free since they depend on the non-free cpu
microcode.  As this is not true, we obviously do not require hardware to be
free.  True firmware is hardware.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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- Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003
  - From: Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com>
- Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003
  - From: tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003
  - From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>

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