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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by whbboyd on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:58AM (#14580911)
Blame Broadcom for that; the b43 firmware may not legally be redistributed, so the only legal option is the fwcutter.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by avar on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:18AM (#14580996)
Hence my suggestion that the Debian project distribute a script that I can run to get the firmware myself & trivially build my own install CD, and that this be prominently advertised on debian.org.

The Debian project already ships that sort of script in the current non-free firmware CD, so clearly it's not a legal issue. What it doesn't ship is the ability to run that on another machine as part of preparing an ISO to install on a fresh machine that needs the proprietary firmware.

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