Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:16:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Humberto Massa wrote: > > >But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting > > >around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the > > >firmware blobs in the kernel (-- ok, *if* you consider that hex dumps > > >are not source code). What Sven asked was: "Hey, can I state explicitly > > >the distribution state in the source files, by means of adding some > > >comments?". > > > > >I think even a clarification "this firmware hexdump is considered to be > > >the source code, and it's GPL'd" would do, but I must put my asbestos > > >suit everytime I say it. :-) > > > > We do not add comments to the kernel source code which simply state the > > obvious. > > The only thing here is that it has to be obvious not only to you, but to the > judge too :) > > In this case, it is not comments, but proper copyright attribution, which was > added in the tg3.c case since the first checkin : > > /* > * tg3.c: Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver. > * > * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) > * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc. > * > * Firmware is: > * Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation. > */ > > The firmware part was not present in the original checkin you did in 2002. > Adding something about the licencing status of it would be enough. > > Or even adding some comment in the toplevel COPYING file saying that firmware > blobs come under their own licence or something such, and then listing all the > firmware blobs and their licencing condition in a separate toplevel file would > be enough. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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