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

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Cc: debian-vote@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:23:10 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20060822221804.GC28755@mauritius.dodds.net> (Steve Langasek's message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:18:04 -0700")
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Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

>         4. determines that for the purposes of DFSG #2, device firmware
> shall also not be considered a program.

I am bothered that there is never a definition of "firmware" here.  It
seems to me that if you gave one, it would be something like:
"firmware is a program which runs on a secondary CPU inside the
computer."

Thomas

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