On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:34 PM Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 04:06 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Hello, Debian kernel team, > > > > I have a question about the code diff > > between the orig.tar.xz and the upstream > > stable kernel. > [...] > > I extracted [1] and [2], and compared the contents. > > > > > > $ diff -r -u deb/linux-5.10.28/ korg/linux-5.10.28/ > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx: micropatch.c > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/Documentation/netlabel: > > draft-ietf-cipso-ipsecurity-01.txt > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/media/i2c: vs6624.c > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb: af9005-script.h > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/net/appletalk: cops.c > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/net/appletalk: cops_ffdrv.h > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/net/appletalk: cops.h > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/net/appletalk: cops_ltdrv.h > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/video/fbdev: nvidia > > Only in korg/linux-5.10.28/drivers/video/fbdev: riva > > > > > > I guess there are some reasons why those files were deleted from the > > debian kernel. > > > > What is the story behind this? > > The IETF draft for CIPSO is under a non-free license. The nvidia and > riva drivers contain obfuscated source code. The other files contain > executable code as static data, without any source for it. So they > don't comply with DFSG. > > Ben.
Thank you for explaining this! -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
