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

To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, 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 14:26:42 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20060823105217.GA25415@powerlinux.fr> (Sven Luther's message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:52:17 +0200")
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Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Notice that the bios or other firmware used on most machines today is also
> refered as firmware. The original definition is, i believe, any kind of code
> provided by the vendor of said device, and on which he has full control, so
> firmware was non-free by definition originally.

How does the vendor of a device have "full control" over what firmware
I choose to load into it?

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