[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > (Please try to not Cc me on every reply. My messages even contain a > Mail-Followup-To header.) > > On Dec 11, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And why it should be different if that firmware is distributed by the > > > manufacturer on a CD instead of a flash EPROM chip? > > > > Because in that case the manufacturer is hurting the user by not > > providing source, and we are against that.
> So this is just your personal opinion, not something required by the > policy. Debian is pro and against many things, but I can't see a part of > the policy which requires removing free software from the distribution > to make a political point about software distributed by others. Really? What do you think is the reason for separating contrib from main?
