Firmware

Posted Nov 15, 2006 8:20 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Firmware by corbet
Parent article: Resisting the binary blob

The major problem with firmware is not the lack of source, but the lack of a license properly allowing ditribution and modification, even for the firmwares shipped in the Linux kernel, see http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html for the list of issues in 2.6.17.

Striving for a fully free distribution imply tracking that issue and I only see Debian working on it so far.