On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:51:15AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) > > > On Apr 02, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> So what? > > > > > So it is a problem, because currently it would not be allowed. > > > > Where does it say that such images are not allowed? > > Our social contract, §1: "We will never make the system depend on an > item of non-free software".
Given some options: 1. Don't distribute the firmware blob at all; 2. Provide a way to download the blob during install (while admitting this won't work if the blob is the code for your ADSL modem); 3. Provide the blob on disk in the regular install media (ie in main); 4. Provide the blob on disk in a special tained installer (ie in non-free or a special firmware section). Which do you think makes the system *depend* less or more on non-free software? (Depend is the key word.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
