Z:gnu-www-ja-common-distros--f8e0d6-Nonfree firmware programs used/en

Nonfree firmware programs used with Linux, the kernel, are called &ldquo;blobs&rdquo;, and that's how we use the term. In BSD parlance, the term &ldquo;blob&rdquo; means something else: a nonfree driver. OpenBSD and perhaps other BSD distributions (called &ldquo;projects&rdquo; by BSD developers) have the policy of not including those. That is the right policy, as regards drivers; but when the developers say these distributions &ldquo;contain no blobs&rdquo;, it causes a misunderstanding. They are not talking about firmware blobs.