On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:46:03PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Oh, come off it. The social contract says: > > "We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" > in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software Guidelines". We > promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free > according to these guidelines. We will support people who create or use > both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the system > require the use of a non-free component." > > I see nothing that suggests that "non-free component" is only meant to > apply to material shipped by Debian. Nor is there any suggestion that > it applies only to software (which is unsurprising, given the care > taken to remove all reference to software).
Do you really not see the references to Software in that quoted text? If that's the case, you might have a reading comprehension problem. > How do you claim that the social contract allows us to ship any drivers > that require non-free firmware, even if they're on the PCB? In cases where firmware is basically indistinguishable from hardware, we treat it as hardware, and not as software. -- Raul
