Le 05/06/2015 07:50, Isaac Dunham a écrit :
> From a legal point of view, I would also carefully refrain from
>redistributing any non-free firmware in Devuan, the main reason being
>that usually you*don't* have the right to redistribute it, and even
>if you have got this right from the HW constructor, such right can be
>withdrawn any moment at their own will, which might be a quite
>unpleasent surprise for Devuan...
There is a*very* large set of non-free firmware for which at least your
first claim is false, and for much of it the second is false as well.
I've actually read several of the licenses in firmware-linux-nonfree.
b43 is/was a notable exception, getting it the "b43-fwcutter" package...
which leads me to mention something else:
The criteria for something getting into debian non-free require your
claims to be false for that package, if it isn't a downloader or
installer.
I think one could always make the following argument: I have paid
for a device which cannot work without the firmware; therefore what I
paid for is a set which includes hardware and firmware. Sorry but when I
buy a car, it is a package which includes the key; otherwise I wouldn't
buy it.
Didier
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