This one time, at band camp, Peter Palfrader said: > > | Firmware is data that is uploaded to hardware components, not designed to be > | run on the host CPU. Often this firmware is already required at install time > | in order to use network or storage devices. > | > | Unfortunately such firmware often is distributed as BLOBs, with no source or > | further documentation that lets us learn how it works or interacts with the > | hardware in question. By excluding such firmware from Debian we exclude > | users that require such devices from installing our operating system, or > | make it unnecessarily hard for them. > | > | Therefore the Debian project resolves that > | a) firmware in Debian does not have to come with source. While we do > | prefer firmware that comes with source and documentation we will not > | require it, > | b) we however do require all other freedoms that the DFSG mandate from > | components of our operating system, and > | c) such firmware can and should be part of our official installation media. This one time, at band camp, Peter Palfrader said: > | Firmware is data that is loaded into hardware components in order to > | make the component function properly. It is not code that is run on > | the host CPU. I would second this with the amendement noted. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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