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Non-free firmware in the kernel tree.

Posted Apr 14, 2004 8:59 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Debian Weekly News 2004/15 by jwb
Parent article: Debian Weekly News 2004/15

Firmware are copyrighted code. Even forgetting the source issue, some firmware were found to carry a license incompatible with the GPL and/or DFSG. Some licenses did not allow for redistribution at all. See http://bugs.debian.org/242895 for an example.

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