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- sorting out non-free firmware

- sorting out non-free firmware

Posted Jun 22, 2005 3:11 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: - sorting out non-free firmware by simon_kitching
Parent article: Debian release team meeting minutes

The other point which needs to be made is that the copyright (and patents,
if any) holder of such a binary blob should give clear permission for it
to distributed freely, loaded into hardware, and executed by the hardware.


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