On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:36:03AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > An alternative would be to leave non-free firmware in non-free, but not > to enforce the requirement that drivers depending on it end up in > contrib. This is possibly the most straight forward, and by squinting > funny we could possibly even argue that the social contract already > allows this.
I believe this is our best option. AIUI, in many cases we don't have any license to redistribute the firmware anyway, so the support mechanisms need to be there regardless; at which point there doesn't even seem to be a strong convenience argument for distributing such firmware in main, even if people accepted that convenience was sufficient rationale. I don't think I have a problem, conceptually, with a kernel package which provides drivers for 10,000 different types of hardware, and needs to load firmware from disk for 300 of them, being in main (without a Depends:/Recommends: relationship on the firmware-providing packages). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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