Debian Developers - Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware

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Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware

Herbert Xu

2004-03-25, 4:39 pm

Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> wrote:
>
> with buggy firmware. The presence of it could trigger its use. (If
> there's no firmware provided in the device at all, I don't consider it
> "firmware" if it's Debian's turn to provide it.)

In most of these cases there is no firmware on the device at all.
Are you saying that in that case having it in main is acceptable to you?
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