Re: [Trisquel-users] ath9k not free?

[chris]

I just thought I'd chime in here and say that Debian requires everything to  
be automatically built on a build server and as the build process is unusual  
they don't have the tools/setup to automate it (yet?). As free firmware is a  
'new' thing there has never been a solution needed for it. Everything has  
simply been handed to them in binary form and then packaged for the non-free  
repository. Regardless of if the particular firmware in Debian's non-free  
repository is free or not Debian's policy prevent it from being moved to the  
main repository. Trisquel isn't bound by these policies. Simply that it can  
be built from source is good enough.