On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 04:46:19PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > As such, I think we should remove unicorn from lenny for now.
I cannot argue otherwise. The USB GPL link issue appears to stem from the closed-source components, which are distributed in .o format only. Debian doesn't distribute pre-built Unicorn modules, and therefore I think the GPL Violation scare warning and refusal to link is a complete red herring for users building modules for their own use in the way that unicorn-source intends. But it would appear that this module is effectively dead for current kernels until someone can do a bit of work on it, even if only to find a way suppress the link error (or omit the unicorn-usb driver?) and do some reliability testing. Philippe Coval's website at http://who.is.free.fr/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=unicorn suggests that Unicorn chipset support is now handled by st.com but that may not help with the USB interface ! I think Philippe may be subscribed to this bug. My test machine has been long term borrowed by my wife so I can't work on this in the Lenny release timeframe :-( Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
