On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Really? Do any packages in main ship binary firmware like that? That > violates the DFSG surely?
Debian doesn't require things are actually built from source, just that they can be. For examples look at the firmware-free source package (or any package that uses autoconf but doesn't build-dep on dh-autoreconf). http://sources.debian.net/src/firmware-free/latest/ > Either way I think, in order to have free firmware, the free-libre > distributions need to provide a good toolchain and environment for > firmware development. Distributing open-source firmware to be built > from source, would then be a more natural thing to do. (vs. firmware > that was developed in proprietary software - which even if it were > open-sourced, we may be unable to build anyway) Agreed, however the problem with that is they often use custom chips so we might end up with one toolchain per supported device. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss
