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



* Loïc Minier (lool+debian@via.ecp.fr) [060823 13:37]:
> 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.

But that doesn't get changed then anyways with Steve's proposal.



Cheers,
Andi
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