Ubuntu tainting the kernel with proprietary drivers ?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:22:21AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> 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

No, it wouldn't.  The policy is clearly explained here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing

Firmware is explicitly discussed there.

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 - mdz