allBSD's "Stop the Blob" Campaign

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Jona Joachim <walkingshadow at grummel.net> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > OK.  That's a clear trademark violation.  I expect AllBSD will be
> > hearing from the FreeBSD Foundation's lawyers...
> Does this mean that the FreeBSD Project leaders didn't know that our
> logo was used for this campaign?
> Does this mean that the FreeBSD Project encourages blobs?

It means that the matter is now in the hands of those who are
qualified to handle it.

As for the FreeBSD Project's stance on closed-source drivers, I will
let the source tree speak for itself:

des at dwp ~% find /sys/contrib -name \*.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/nve/amd64/nvenetlib.o.bz2.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/nve/i386/nvenetlib.o.bz2.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/oltr/i386-elf.trlld.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/arm9-le-thumb-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/armv4-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/armv4-le-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/mips-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/mips-le-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/mips1-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/mips1-le-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/mipsisa32-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/mipsisa32-le-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/powerpc-be-eabi.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/powerpc-le-eabi.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/sh4-le-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/x86_64-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/xscale-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/xscale-le-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/alpha-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/powerpc-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/sparc64-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/ap30.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/ap43.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/ap51.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/ap61.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/sparc-be-elf.hal.o.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ipw/ipw2100-1.3-i.fw.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ipw/ipw2100-1.3-p.fw.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/ipw/ipw2100-1.3.fw.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ipw2200-bss.fw.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ipw2200-ibss.fw.uu
/sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ipw2200-sniffer.fw.uu

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no