Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch

2006-08-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 28 août 2006 20:35, Anthony Towns a écrit : Hello, world! […] Note that both these polls are just an informal way of finding out what people think, and while they will be considered and taken into account, they won't necessarily be the final word on the matter. I'm very suprised

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch

2006-08-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:39:03PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I'm very suprised by that mail that completely forgot to mention the ongoing discussions about a GR about firmwares. There is already three proposals for that GR[1] and I wonder why those have not been mentionned. Err, but

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch

2006-08-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony Towns wrote: snip (c) A number of drivers in the Linux kernel include firmware to be uploaded to the chipsets they support that is provided as either a sequence of hex codes, or as a separate binary file -- while modifying the code is allowed, in many if

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch hik :-) At skimme, ny mail

2006-08-28 Thread Niels Larsen
On Monday 28 August 2006 20:35, Anthony Towns wrote: Hello, world! As a project, Debian is heavily committed to the ideals of free software. That's not news to anyone reading this, I'm sure, as it's something we've constantly worked to improve, whether that be by establishing our Social