Ubuntu tainting the kernel with proprietary drivers ?

[Scott Dier]

Matthew East wrote:
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> Hi,
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> * 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.
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> It would be a bug. You can file bugs on the Ubuntu bugtracker at
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Filed -- I believe (but don't remember) that the packages are all 
generated from the same sources, so I think its a simple fix that was 
overlooked since all the firmware was moved around.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/49373

Thanks,
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Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>