Xavier Roche writes: > The firmware is a detached part of the connected hardware, nothing more.
It's software. It's not a part at all. > Wi-Fi cards problems are a good example: there is no ROM in the pcmcia > device, and therefore the binary code is loaded during startup in the > RAM. Why should we treat this case differently ? Do we treat Wi-Fi cards differently? We shouldn't. > I strongly think that firmware are a pieces of proprietary hardware. If it gets loaded into RAM and executed by a cpu it is software. > But not part of the operating system (the code is independent from the > architecture and the OS). Then it need not be licensed under GPL-compatible terms. However, if Debian distributes it, it must be under a DFSG-compliant license. > Are we going to ask for the hardware sources, too ? Debian does not distribute the hardware. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
