On Jan 6, 2008 4:25 AM, Gilles Chehade  wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:42:16AM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:

> > > Firmware are not free enough when they have a license that does not

> > > allow them to be redistributed with the system.

> > >

> >

> > You are talking of free as in freedom and not price, right? If the

> > whole point was to avoid paying $$$ in OpenBSD, my bad.

> >

>

> What has money to do with this ?

> You sound like you have issues understanding, so I will make it as simple

> as I can, please take the time to read a few times, and make sure you get

> it, before replying to this mail:

>

>         - vendor A sells hardware that requires a firmware

>

>         - OpenBSD wants to support that hardware and needs the firmware

>                 to be shipped, say in /etc/firmware/, to have the

>                 hardware work out of the box

>

>         - vendor A says "if a customer wants the firmware, he must go

>                 to out website and fill a registration form online".

>

>         - OpenBSD does not ship the firmware because it is not free

>                 enough.

>

> See ? This is an example, it is unrelated to money, and you still failed

> to show us ONE point where we don't stick to our goals.

>

So registration form = non-free. You failed to prove how it was not

free. I asked if it required OpenBSD to pay money to a vendor, or the

issue was about something else besides the money. I don't see the

registration form being a problem here. Maybe they might simply take

down your name and address for contact details or whatever. I don't

see why a registration form must be non-free here.