Hi -
Sorry I'm late for the party. I'm on travel, with less than
ideal 'net connections. Reading 147 messages on d-v over
a hotel's erratic wireless link was not fun.
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/08/msg00117.html
> None of the trolls demanding the removal
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:56:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/08/msg00125.html
> > I would indeed vote for a solution including a non-free hardware,
> > or even better an additional CD, which contained a non-free
> > version of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>My understanding is that upstream has not been entirely receptive
>to patches that remove non-free firmware from it. Maybe that's
>because they don't have an established firmware-nonfree project
>(like Debian does) into which to move that firmware?
No, it's because they
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted from wonderland.linux.it:
> No, it's because they really do not believe this to be a problem, like
> everybody else but a few people polluting debian-legal.
I note that several of those supporting the current source code
requirement for main don't post much
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Searching OpenBSD mailing list archives for mails matching both keywords
>firmware and source found nothing. Are you sure it's in there?
Well, probably there is a reason if you have not found anything by
looking for "source"... With a two minutes google search of
"de Raa
Kurt Roeckx wrote in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/08/msg00205.htm
> I'm not sure about those 46 that already use request_firmware()
I see no reason to take them out. I listed them as a measure
of success, at least with recently added drivers.
> It would be interestig to know if any o
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [...] "de Raadt firmware" I have found:
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html
> And http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550:
Thanks. (Neither were in the OpenBSD list archives...)
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MJR/slef
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >> > I think we should learn from OpenBSD on this front.
> >> I agree. Indeed, the OpenBSD project not only distributes
> >> sourceless firmwares, but also sourceless firmwares with a
> >> license which forbids modifications and rever
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