| Thomas Bushnell BSG 2005-03-31, 8:54 pm |
| Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> Right, but how's that relevant when we're discussing whether the DFSG is
> reasonable to apply to firmware?
>
> Wrong question or not, why don't you answer the question?
It benefits freedom if we give special things to hardware
manufacturers that distribute free software: things like bugfixes,
support, and free distribution resources.
What is missing here is any statement of why this looser standard
should not simply apply to *all* software. In other words, "How does
it benefit Debian if our users have to get their non-free
documentation reader from somewhere else? Shouldn't we distribute it
ourselves?"
What I'm looking for is:
"XXX is the difference between firmware and software, which is a
difference in the things themselves and not just in this or that
changable social fact about the nasty practices of the authors, and
which logically implies a difference in what kinds of freedom are
useful."
Thomas
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