Ubuntu tainting the kernel with proprietary drivers ?

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Conrad Knauer:
> Now, what bothers me about the article you quoted was that he went
> further, claiming (based on a forum post) that "the proprietary
> firmware are not in pool/restricted/, they are included in
> linux-image-2.6.15-23-686_2.6.15-23.39_i386.deb, the main kernel
> package"
> 
> Based on everything that I understand about Ubuntu's separation of
> free and non-free code, this would be a big no-no... if (and that's a
> big if) it were true.

It would be a bug. You can file bugs on the Ubuntu bugtracker at
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs

Matt
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