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clarify paragraph in the policy page 

This patch addresses the following issue:

https://notabug.org/libreboot/lbwww/issues/27
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@ -184,11 +184,18 @@ more pragmatic way. You can read those guidelines by following this URL:
* FSF Respects Your Freedom (RYF) guidelines: **https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria** * FSF Respects Your Freedom (RYF) guidelines: **https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria**
The FSF RYF guidelines state the following: Put simply, the RYF guidelines pertain to commercial products, with the
stipulation that they must not contain proprietary software, or known privacy
issues like backdoors.
The total exclusion of all proprietary software is currently not feasible. For
example, proprietary SDR firmware in WiFi chipsets, firmware in AHCI devices
like HDDs or SSDs, and the like. The FSF RYF guidelines state the following
exception, to mitigate this fact:
* "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." * "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."
This is a violation of every principle the FSF stands for, *and it should be This exception violates every principle the FSF stands for, *and it should be
rejected on ideological grounds*. The rest of libreboot's policy and overall rejected on ideological grounds*. The rest of libreboot's policy and overall
ideology expressed, in this article, will be based largely on that rejection. ideology expressed, in this article, will be based largely on that rejection.
The definition of *product software* is completely arbitrary; software is The definition of *product software* is completely arbitrary; software is