Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> writes: > Yes, and when next-generation processors will require loading firmwares > to work, we would put them in non-free and kernels and libc in contrib. If that happened, it would not be possible perhaps to have a free kernel. That would be sad. But it would not mean that a non-free kernel magically turned free, just because it became impossible to have a really free one.