Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no "contortion of logic" involved in the conclusion that the > Social Contract is only talking about the stuff that Debian ships (or > is logically capable of shipping), and not the physical hardware that > stuff runs on.
Argh. Yes, but the firmware in these eeproms is something that we're entirely logically capable of shipping. Claiming that firmware is sometimes software (when it's on a compact flash card, say) and sometimes hardware (when it's on an eeprom, say) is the sort of argument that the social contract changes were meant to deal with. If it's a string of bits encoded on something, we're meant to apply the DFSG to it, not argue about whether it's software or not. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
