When should firmware be free
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Like most pages on LibrePlanet, this page is not written by FSF. It is a brainstorming page made by an interested outsider. The same is true for almost all pages on this wiki, but since this topic is getting some media attention and might be seen by people unfamiliar with LibrePlanet, I thought it was worth making this explicit.
Goals of this page
- Analyse the problem
- Discuss possible policies
- Establish FSF's current policy
- Make suggestions, if necessary, for how FSF's policy could be improved, clarified, or better explained
Articles and statements by or about FSF
- Is Android really free software?, 19 Sep 2011, Richard Stallman, Guardian
- Help fix the wireless firmware problem on the Openmoko GTA04, 26 Sep 2011, Matt Lee (FSF)
- Development of a prototype for injecting immutable firmware into a WLAN chip, 19 Sep 2011, Nikolaus Schaller, GTA04 project
- Papering over a binary blob, 28 Sep 2011, Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net
- Binary firmware and your freedom, 14 Jun 2011, Patrick Van Oosterwijck, Distrowatch
- Campaign for Free BIOS, 17 Feb 2010, Peter Brown (FSF)
