Rodrigo Padula wrote:
- FREE SOFTWARE DEFINITION - By Free Software Foundation
...
These firmwares below affect us directly, affect our freedom!
software != firmware.
The Board's current position is that firmware (that doesn't run on the host
CPU) is a reasonable exception (to modifiability). It is our hope that
once these ground-rules are established and well understood, hardware
manufacturers will be more willing to produce/support high-quality linux
drivers (preferably in the upstream kernel).
-- Rex