The kernel and binary firmware

Posted Apr 7, 2005 16:25 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: The kernel and binary firmware by ballombe
Parent article: The kernel and binary firmware

First Sven has no autority to speak as "Debian"

OK, fair enough.

and secondly is unclear whether the debian-legal has reached such a consensus.

Hm, but that wasn't the impression I got; can you provide pointers to opposition within Debian? (Something reasonably thorough and well-reasoned, not just someone saying they don't agree, without providing a good argument.)

I still stand by my original point, though: the main new argument I saw in that email was *not* that firmware blobs would be non-distributable in some cases (that's been beaten to death before), but that they were distributable in more cases than people had previously assumed, so that moving them out of the kernel is no longer required.

Whether the argument put forth there represents a concensus within Debian I don't know.

--Bruce Fields