Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

Alan Cox
2005-04-07T01:09:10Z

On Llu, 2005-04-04 at 21:47, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bluntly, Debian is being a pain in the ass ;-)
>
> There will always be non-free firmware to deal with, for key hardware.

Firmware being seperate does make a lot of sense. It isn't going away
but it doesn't generally belong in kernel now we have initrd and
firmware loaders.

Alan