On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:45 +0200, Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hello, as far as the GPL and BSD licensed firmwares are concerned, the
> licenses of these firmwares are compliant with the DFSG and will not
> be castrated from the kernel, see the GR007/2006 discussion.
> As for the rest: our priority is free software, who cares about users?
> tg3: Drop. The firmware should be pruned and the driver deactivated
> until someone shows up with a patch upstream accepts.
While I am a user of this driver (my laptop came with a broadcom
gigabit card), I do appreciate your caring for user freedoms and
dropping this driver.
thanks for doing the right thing, even if it means I can't use
lan0.
manoj
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