[NO CC, please] Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:59 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: >> If we waited for a release to be 100% perfect, it will likely take >> several more years. The good news is that the amount of inline firmware >> in the kernel is decreasing. So, eventually, all non-DFSG >> redistributable firmware can belong in firmware-nonfree. > > Do we have an ironclad commitment to not add any additional non-DFSG > firmware, period, no matter what? I would accept a compromise which > guaranteed an increasing slope. But not a back-and-forth thing. Your > reply focuses on regression issues, so is that really sufficient? We > guarantee that, say, there will always be *less* non-DFSG firmware in > each release, and we guarantee that there will never be *new* non-DFSG > firmware. > First of all sorry for mentioning it here. But doesn't 2.6.27 partially solve the issue by moving all that stuff to firmware/? it could easily be stripped from the tarball and moved to some other package. Not that I'm an expert in the field, but I haven't seen anyone mentioning the .27 change before in the thread. > > Thomas Cheers, Raphael Geissert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
