27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
11:05 a.m.
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:13:36AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
re,
first thanks Thomas for noticing, and trying out dyne:bolic.
in my experience debian geeks are quite pedantic in judging things
non-free (see XFree and Lame etc.), to their exclusion of ALSA firmware
doesn't really tells anything to me.
i must admit i also didn't dedicated enough attention to the topic,
which i'm willing to do now with your help. d:b is not based on any
distribution, so i can just start including the firmware from now on.
but i have ONE BIG QUESTION:
is the ALSA firmware freely redistributable by third parties, like me?
thanks!
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jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org
Also then the
Tascam (and maybe some other) USB boxes won't work, as
they also need a firmware plus loader. But then, I think, both
packages to my knowledge ("apt-cache search ...") aren't available in
mainstream Debian as well. Maybe some kind of wishlist bug could be
debian is about to exclude all "non-free" material from their
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