@ 17/06/2004 12:26 : wrote Thiemo Seufer : >Humberto Massa wrote: [snip] > >>>>It's a compilation work. >>> >>>Fine. The copyright for the compilation lies by the one who did the >>>compilation. This is Linus Torvalds, I guess. >>> >>>Thiemo >> >>not here in BR. Or at least not in the way you _seem_ to be implying. > > >I referred only to the inclusion of some firmware in the kernel. > >[snip: lengthy explanation] > >>Easy, huh? extrapolate for ten+ years of patching and aggregating and >>you'll get where we are today. > > >The firmware typically wasn't patched, and nothing is derived from it. > > >Thiemo > >
Exactly my point. (You'll see I am agreeing with you in many points). My personal conclusions of this whole matter is the following: The upstream kernel *should* remove non-freely-redistributable firmware from their tree. Debian should remove those, too (for good), while the upstream doesn't do its part. Furthermore, Debian should move to non-free freely-distributable but non-modifiable *or* without-source firmware. -- br,M
