Ubuntu tainting the kernel with proprietary drivers ?

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 12 June 2006 11:16, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> On 6/11/06, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:19:39PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> > > Yes, and main/ does not allow firmware that is non-free.
> >
> > I don't believe this to be true for Ubuntu, though it is currently
> > Debian policy.
>
> Would it be possible to package these firmware bits in Restricted (or
> elsewhere) so that they could be easily removed, if desired?
>
Wasn't this the exact point of Gnubuntu? And is that going to happen at some 
point?

Sasha