[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:10:47PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: >> Conflict in what way? It says "contrib" and "non-free" are for works >> that do not conform to the DFSG. Packages in "contrib" conform to the >> DFSG but depend on software that does not. If I interpret the SC's >> statement about "contrib" and "non-free" so it agrees with Policy, I >> see no conflict. Boot loaders currently in "main" conform to the DFSG >> but depend on a BIOS, and there is no free BIOS in "main." > >You can't build those boot loaders on a system which hasn't been booted. > >If those boot loaders can be in main, then everything else that's in >main can be in main.
Then let's forget for a minute boot loaders. What about all drivers which interact with non-free software stored in computers and their peripherals? -- ciao, Marco