  Re: Fedora Freedom and linux-libre  On Jun  8, 2008, David
Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:  > That's nothing special
-- it's just the same as we should always be > vigilant for
someone slipping non-GPL'd _code_ into the kernel. > Should we
just give up, just because people slip up occasionally?
Certainly not.  But unfortunately it's not just the same.
Slipping non-GPL code into the kernel would be a license
violation. Legal issues tend to carry a lot more weight than
"weaker" policy mandates (*)  But what I'm more concerned about
has nothing to do with copyright infringement.  It has to do
with respecting the 4 essential freedoms. Not just firmware.
Drivers developed under conditions that deny users the ability
to study the source code, understand it, and adapt it to their
own needs do not respect freedom #1, even if they are perfectly
compliant with the GPL.  And I very much doubt think anyone
would succeed in removing from, or preventing the addition of
drivers to, Linux just because documentati