Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:26:21 -0400 Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > > commit 23152ff70f0ed4966d8207846f54c793d7cb4f86 > > Author: Petr Hodina > > AuthorDate: Tue Jan 4 06:58:51 2022 +0100 > > > > gnu: Add fwupd. > > > > * gnu/packages/firmware.scm (fwupd): New variable. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès > > Just a quick question: does this tool talks to a remote server that > serves non-free software as well as free one? If so, it'd need to be > patched to comply with the FSDG. It does. By default it at least uses the LVFS repository which has nonfree software. I don't remember if it also has other repositories or if there was a way to easily download updates from the repository without fwupd or LVFS. It is at least possible to search for specific software in LVFS at this address: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/search?value=microcode You also have UEFI updates and so on there, so it's pretty clear that there is some nonfree software. And we actually have the opposite issue here: It is way harder to find firmware updates that are fully free and that they can at least in theory be built with 100% free software on top of FSDG compliant distributions. Maybe small free software firmwares like the colorhug firmware could be OK. Somebody would need to check the dependencies for build the firmware update. Bigger firmwares like with firmwares using Coreboot are probably not OK because while coreboot is under the GPL, to work on recent hardware nonfree software is likely to be used (like microcode updates, Intel FSP, nonfree AGESA, etc). Denis.