-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Manoj Srivastava schrieb: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:45 +0200, Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hello, as far as the GPL and BSD licensed firmwares are concerned, the >> licenses of these firmwares are compliant with the DFSG and will not >> be castrated from the kernel, see the GR007/2006 discussion. > >> As for the rest: our priority is free software, who cares about users? > >> tg3: Drop. The firmware should be pruned and the driver deactivated >> until someone shows up with a patch upstream accepts. > > While I am a user of this driver (my laptop came with a broadcom > gigabit card), I do appreciate your caring for user freedoms and > dropping this driver. > > thanks for doing the right thing, even if it means I can't use > lan0. > > manoj
One Laptop, doesn't sound like a problem a couple a hundred servers, yep that's a Problem. So time to get Managemet draft a letter to Customers and explain 'em that all there systems get switched to Ubuntu cause of a driver debian doesn't feel is free enough. greets Uwe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG+7JMmDkRS+2sqmURAnV9AJ9dYux1qVLre86ZiIxE2LwmzAYktgCfeDFk JkavlOohuv0EEYU9NZsfLGc= =+XwZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
