[Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
- From: yogeshg1987@xxxxxxxxx (Yogesh Girikumar)
- Date: Fri Aug 20 06:09:53 2010
2010/8/20 Raja Subramanian <rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx>
Can someone please enlighten me on what Mark means by "binary-blob
drivers"?
"Blobs" are binary only firmware which are used by addon cards/devices.
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See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497
I also don't understand how making them proprietary makes the OS open
source
Binary only drivers and blobs are included in Ubuntu/Debian only when
good quality open source drivers do not exist.
Thank you so much for the insight. From what I understand, Blobs are here to
stay for a while. Why does this happen? Because there are not enough people
willing to write code for these hardware or is it because each hardware for
which the drivers are written are way too diverse from each other? Is there
a standard for lets say building the basics of a mobile broadband modem? Has
there been any attempt to write a framework for groups of similar[in h/w]
devices? Or am I not making sense here? Just curious.
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