[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Ralink drivers under GPL license but still considered non-free?

[Igor . Zobin]

I had the same situation with a friend who bought himself a multifunction  
device, a scanner/printer/fax from HP. It didn't work under Trisquel out of  
the box and I was convinced the thing had no free drivers at all. However, on  
the HP homepage you can download both the drivers and the firmware. The  
drivers are GPL'd, the firmware isn't. For the sake of convenience we left it  
at that.

Bottom line, Radeon cards aren't the only devices who suffer from  
free-drivers + non-free firmware.