Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files

[Mgg]

On Fri 14 Aug 2009 15:08:18 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote:
> > > -Should GPL modules that are useless without the non-free firmware
> > > files be removed?
> >
> > I think that the GPL modules should not be removed, because if "we" have
> > them, "we" can develop free GPL firmwares, "we" need the hardware to
> > experiment,
> >
> > what do u think?
>
> "We" as driver hackers, 

anyone could be a driver hacker, u must encourage him/her

> have the code anyway, we know where to find it.
> "We" as software distributors must think of our end users, who deserve a
> fully free system. I think that a program that needs a proprietary piece
> to work is not free software, even if it is GPL'd.

a too opresive view

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