clarify paragraph in the policy page
This patch addresses the following issue: https://notabug.org/libreboot/lbwww/issues/27hslick-master
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* FSF Respects Your Freedom (RYF) guidelines: **https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria**
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The FSF RYF guidelines state the following:
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Put simply, the RYF guidelines pertain to commercial products, with the
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stipulation that they must not contain proprietary software, or known privacy
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issues like backdoors.
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The total exclusion of all proprietary software is currently not feasible. For
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example, proprietary SDR firmware in WiFi chipsets, firmware in AHCI devices
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like HDDs or SSDs, and the like. The FSF RYF guidelines state the following
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exception, to mitigate this fact:
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* "However, there is one exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software."
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This is a violation of every principle the FSF stands for, *and it should be
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This exception violates every principle the FSF stands for, *and it should be
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rejected on ideological grounds*. The rest of libreboot's policy and overall
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ideology expressed, in this article, will be based largely on that rejection.
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The definition of *product software* is completely arbitrary; software is
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