On Sat 11 November 2017 09:28:23 Adam Borowski wrote: > > Does it really make the card more "free" if the binary blob is built-in > > instead of being loaded at runtime? > > Somehow, RMS believes so.
No, actually RMS/FSF doesn't care about "more free" or "more secure" for that particular topic of peripherals firmware- it's simply about "what we don't see, we may consider as a hw blackbox. If however we *see* that firmware then our rules apply". RMS and FSF can't accept that GPL only applies to code run on the *linux* APplication Environment CPU (and coprocesors sharing unaudited access to that code and user data), it's a mere problem of defining the "borders of their farm" refer http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1396903&highlight=stallman#post1396903 >>>If the modem firmware can't be changed, it is effectively in ROM, so >>>it might as well be a circuit. It doesn't need to be considered as >>>software. For instance, the FSF can disregard it when judging whether to >>>endorse a product /j _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
