Re: Firmware & Social Contract: GR proposal

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:35:50AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote: [...]
> > Don't forget that sarge also has these firmwares. 
> 
> That's not entirely true, according to
> http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html :-
> 
>   Relative to sarge, 13 new sourceless-firmware-contaminated files have
>   found their way into Debian's Linux source tree. They are:
> 
>     * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100_fw.c
>     * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200_fw.c
>     * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2300_fw.c
>     * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2322_fw.c
>     * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2400_fw.c

Are those not those which have gone in the firmware-nonfree or whatever
package which was uploaded yesterday to non-free ?

> > If we release etch ASAP, we have something that is much more free.
> 
> In general, that's true and a cause for rejoicing.

Indeed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther