Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

[Hans de Goede]

Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>> I fully agree, this discussion does raise one interesting question though: What
>> if there is fully floss software, which we can build from source. Which is
>> written for another OS, but will run fine under an emulator and is hard to
>> port. Do we allow shipping this?
> 
> BTW there is an obvious example - VirtualDUB.
> 

Which uses all kind of patented stuff and thus is a no go.

Regards,

Hans (who still thinks the question is valid, and the answer is yes)