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Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware



On Wed, Aug 23, 2006, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > This is a good proposition, as it does not allow firmwares already in 
> > non-free (eg madwifi) to go into main.
> Madwifi contains non-free code that runs inside the kernel on the host 
> processor. Whatever the project's opinion on firmware, madwifi is 
> clearly non-free.

 Yes, that's why we (including Aurélien) want to keep it in non-free.

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>



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