Plan for tomorrows (20080522) FESCO meeting

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Fri May 23 23:27:30 UTC 2008


On May 23, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> Any reason to not have moved it to the firmware/ dir, as I expected
>> from looking at your patches?
>> 
>> rm -rf firmware/ is so much simpler :-)

> For your purpose, wouldn't you want to separate
> source-available-firmware and documentation-available bit settings
> from the parts that would be more difficult for you to modify freely?

For my purpose, yes, removing firmware that is Free would be
unnecessary.  But if it can be packaged separately and there are
advantages to it, why take the technically inferior course of action?

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