Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:29:58PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: > Hardly perfectly readable - I put up code there too :) Oh well. Some people write ugly perl code, some write ugly VHDL. Not the language or tools fault, just bad programmers. > Which is often not the case on cheap devices (often usb)

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:46:14AM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: > I'm willing to stake my reputation on betting you are _not_ a firmware > engineer. Your are totally wrong if you think all firmware blobs can > be replaced by human readable source. > > There is hardware, for which to function, will alwa

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:50:23PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > In the kernel itself, yes. Provided that: > > * the kernel framework for loading firmware is used for drivers > depending on non-free firmware, and > * that firmware is available in non-free via firmware-nonfree What if the fi