From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Free firmware - A redefinition of the term and a new metric for it's measurement. Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 19:18:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87tw8bjhqm.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZiRT-0001On-R7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:18:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZiRQ-00061C-MR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:18:39 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::235]:36231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZiRQ-000612-Hs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:18:36 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x235.google.com with SMTP id 11so6532154qkl.3 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:18:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87tw8bjhqm.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?B?VGF5bGFuIFVscmljaCBCYXnEsXJsxLEvS2FtbWVy?= Cc: guix-devel , gnu-linux-libre@nongnu.org Hi Taylan, > Being freely redistributeable doesn't make a blob free software > obviously, so endorsing such blobs would be out of the question as per > the core principles of the FSF. Correct me if I misunderstand. The requirements I proposed for the definition of free firmware is already more than most companies are willing to do. Any company willing to do these things should IMO get a medal pinned on their chest and not be disadvantaged.