On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:29:29AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > A. Maitland Bottoms wrote: > [snip] > > I think I'll just try building out of the linux-2.6 Debian source package. > > > > Where is the svn for Debian's linux-2.6 kernel tree? > > http://svn.debian.org/ , Project "kernel". > > > I'd like to run > > svn blame to see where the changelog line came from: > > > > - readdition of tg3 driver, as firmware license has been fixed. > > > > Maybe that wasn't quite right. > > Tg3 is built for most other architectures.
Well, Andres mentioned the contrary to me, and i don't have a checked out three on this box, so you may be right. We need to comonize the tg3 option too. > > I think that your interpretation of the > > fix in firmware license is that it improves the situation from > > undistributable > > to non-free distributable. > > > > So, perhaps this bug needs to be reassigned to linux-26, and retitled to > > "non-free content in kernel source packages in main should be removed > > (again)". > > Or probably "re-enable tg3 for powerpc and arm". Well, that would be fine and all, but : The licence change made the tg3 firmware distributable again, but it is still no free software by any stretch of the imagination. So, if we add it again, then we indeed are going counter to our previous position, and counter to what happened during that vote. I am not sure it is a good idea to do that silently. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
