On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:38:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:41:22PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Si, am I silly and alone in thinking that firmware is binary > > > > computer programs? Let us ask google to define: firmware: > > > You are silly in pretending that the DFSG and the widely shared > > > consensus among developers always intended considering them non-free > > > and inappropriate for main. > > > The last of the three pre-sarge non-free GRs confirmed the fact that > > firmware > > is indeed a code binary, and should have source. > > No, it did not. Reread the GR that passed; it says nothing about firmware > or source code.
But it explicitely replaced all occurences of "program" by "work" in the social contract. It is a strange the DFSG itself didn't get the same change in the same GR... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
