William Lee Irwin III writes: > I'm getting a different story from every single person I talk to, so > something resembling an authoritative answer would be very helpful.
For Debian's purposes, I believe that Joe's summary is correct: DFSG requires that anything without source be removed. As far as I know, that covers all the firmware under discussion. I don't have a list of affected files/drivers. I believe that chunks with licenses that appear GPL-incompatible are being worked on upstream (Greg K-H made a posting to linux-kernel earlier this week mentioning the particular case that spawned this thread), so I hope his first set becomes empty. The broader discussion is not whether Debian should remove binary firmware, but whether the upstream kernel has to remove it too. Michael
