Re: How my BBC Sounds Plugin briefly broke LMS. A cautionary tale!

>> The other sticking point for including LMS in Linux distributions is the
>> firmware for hardware players, which is not permitted to be
>> redistributed.  That said, it hasn't updated for a long time, so maybe
>> dropping it from the packages wouldn't be much of an issue.
> 
> The firmware can always be put in a separate package, or downloaded on
> demand. Fedora has special repositories for non-free software.

Unless I'm wrong it actually would be downloaded on demand if needed. 
But as mavit said: considering how old these are, it's hard to imagine 
anybody still got a device which hasn't been updated yet!

I should put removal of the firmwares on my todo list.