On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:45:24PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > [snip] > > > > For more info, read the debian-vote mailing lists archive. > > > > > > > > And welcome to debian politics :) > > > > > > Hmm, I wonder what this means for the firmware blob issues.. > > > > Firmware is software, they can't be considered as data or documentation > > by any stretch of the imagination, so they still need to go, i think. > > I can't see that. Properly licensed firmware was ok under the old > release policy/SC interpretation, and the vote simply reverts to > that one until sarge releases.
Please tell me in how far you can consider firmware as something else than software ? It is a list of instructions or whatever, and is executed by a processor on the target device, is it not ? IF there is other reasons not to consider it as needing to be free, or if we are ready to make a compromise, then ok, but the firmware is not software clause should be really hard to defend, as opposed to RFC not being software, or fonts or whatever. Unless i misunderstand totally what firmware is. Friendly, Sven Luther
