Le Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 02:37:49PM +0000, Bill Allombert a écrit : > Le Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:56:07AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit : > > Do you too agree with the position that having non-free firmware stored in > > your hardware is better than having it loaded from your OS? > > My position is that the laws governing embedded firmware are much > more favorable to the users than the laws governing freestanding > firmware.
To gives a random example: firmware-iwlwifi (by the way the link in packages.d.o to the copyright file does not work https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_20210315-3_copyright return 404 ) * No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is permitted. This would not be legal for embedded firmware THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED You cannot disclaim warranty on hardware. You have to provide statutory warranty. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.