Just to be clear, that discussion was before we knew that there were some problems with copyright/licensing statements on objects in linux-firmware. Nevertheless, the arguments there still make sense. Rather than moving all of linux-firmware to restricted, the questionable parts need to be fixed or removed.
Please refer to the discussions we had on #ubuntu-devel about linux-firmware originally before putting it in main:
http:// irclogs. ubuntu. com/2008/ 10/14/% 23ubuntu- devel.html
Just to be clear, that discussion was before we knew that there were some problems with copyright/licensing statements on objects in linux-firmware. Nevertheless, the arguments there still make sense. Rather than moving all of linux-firmware to restricted, the questionable parts need to be fixed or removed.