-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As you will note at http://lwn.net/Articles/3467/, during my presentation to the Linux kernel developer's summit in Ottawa yesterday morning on behalf of HP, I "switched hats" and on behalf of Debian raised the issues identified in several open bugs in our BTS regarding real and apparent GPL issues with files in the kernel source tree. See 150058 for an example.
The concensus during my talk was that this was an issue where it would be best if some individual or group could prepare a position statement about what files currently in the kernel source tree are problematic, why, what to do with them, and what the "rules" should be for inclusion of things like binary firmware in drivers in the future. Alan Cox suggested that the debian-legal community might be the best place for a proposal to originate that the kernel development community could review, particularly since this issue is being raised by Debian and we've got open bugs of priority serious against kernel image packages because of this. This seems to me like a really neat opportunity for us to once again apply some of our energy to helping resolve a real issue in the community that's much larger than just Debian... Anyone interested? :-) Bdale -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE9GjpTZKfAp/LPAagRAqg/AJ4osrTCTvdWprEuD8cbwr4PHO7hwQCfWzh2 C176xnMSb7DRnuuZ0cJ5skk= =lU1e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
