On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 14:53, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:26 -0600 > Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > >> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote: >> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600 >> > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bs...@volumehost.net> wrote: >> > >> >> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote: >> >>> what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that >> >>> comes as a Debian package? >> >> The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not available) parts >> >> removed. There are also Debian-specific patches added. >> > >> > The vanilla kernel has non-free stuff in it? I thought it's all GPL. >> >> Some drivers have firmware blobs encoded in them as really long byte >> arrays. They are de jure GPL, but, practically, are closed source. > > And Debian removes these, even thought they're technically GPL? Any > examples?
For more than you want to know about binary firmware blobs see the thread "Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?" and related threads on debian devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00368.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00024.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/10/msg00010.html The above threads are perfect examples of why I am subscribed to Debian devel. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org