On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:25:14PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > If there really are firmware blobs that are only available via git and > > > which cannot be redistributed we might consider whether it makes sense > > > to not support them entirely, or to force them to be masked. > > > > Did anyone actually consider the fact that there should not be > > non-redistributable firmware blobs in the upstream git tree in the > > first place, as it is the thing that is doing the redistributing > > originally? > > I think non-redistributable in this case means "by Gentoo" since that > was identified to be the case for some of the files in the git > repository. Their license allows them to be distributed in > linux-firmware.git, but not elsewhere.
Really? What firmware files are that way, I just did a quick scan through the upstream linux-firmware.git tree and didn't see anything that would prevent Gentoo from doing this. What did I miss? thanks, greg k-h
