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

[Yavor Doganov]

Diego Saravia wrote:
> > The driver ITSELF is free software.  But there is no way to use
> > it in the Free World.
> 
> could be used to develop a free blob

As I said in my previous messages, distributing the blob (in "source"
or binary form) is not a prerequisite for writing a free replacement
of that blob.  Not at all.

Quite the opposite, by distributing it (or distributing the kernel
module happily able to load and use the blob, if available) you are
effectively saying that there's nothing wrong with that blob.  It will
just help maintain the status quo, which is not what we want.