* Josh Triplett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040617 23:55]: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > You speak as if this has no negative effects. In fact, it does. > > By removing, let's say, the tg3 driver, you make Debian unusable for a > > large percentage of users. Those users turn to other distributions who,
> Usefulness is not an excuse for distributing non-free sofware, or for > violating the GPL or any other license; at one point, many people > "needed" netscape, but that doesn't mean netscape should have been in > main. In any case, the tg3 driver works fine without the firmware on > most cards it supports; the firmware is only needed in a few cases. Please seperate two issues: 1. Are we distributing undistributalbe files? 2. Are we distributing non-free files in main? This discussion was about 1., not about 2. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
