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
- 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, gta04 project
- (LWN members only until 8 October 2011) Papering over a binary blob, 28 Sep 2011, LWN.net
- Binary firmware and your freedom, 14 Jun 2011, Patrick Van Oosterwijck
