free firmware mistakenly removed by LinuxLibre

Alexandre Oliva lxoliva at fsfla.org
Mon Jan 3 23:37:05 UTC 2011


On Jan  3, 2011, Felipe Sanches <juca at members.fsf.org> wrote:

> What I meant is that the kernel source shouldnt ship binaries.

Why not?  It doesn't harm any freedom to ship them along with the
sources, and it makes perfect sense IMHO to not require people who build
their own kernel binaries to have to have assemblers and compilers and
FPGA tools etc for tons of different targets.

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