>>>>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: >> Ulrich Mueller (ulm) wrote this on the 16th: >> >> > Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking just the first ten >> > items (of a total 114): >> > >> > Unknown license (3 times)
> Which ones specifically? Driver: snd-korg1212 -- Korg 1212 IO audio device Driver: kaweth -- USB KLSI KL5USB101-based Ethernet device Driver: dvb-ttusb-budget -- Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB devices >> > GPL, but without source (3 times) > Really? Which? Driver: ambassador -- Madge Ambassador (Collage PCI 155 Server) ATM NIC. Driver: snd-maestro3 -- ESS Allegro Maestro3 audio device Driver: qla1280 - Qlogic QLA 1240/1x80/1x160 SCSI support >> > "All rights reserved" > That's not an issue, unless it is alone, is there something else in the > license as well? Driver: snd-ymfpci -- Yamaha YMF724/740/744/754 audio devices According to WHENCE, it is: "Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Yamaha Corporation. All Rights Reserved." Nothing else. >> > BSD, without source > There's no problem with that. Driver: advansys - AdvanSys SCSI Right, and it's the only one out of the first ten that we're allowed to redistribute. >> > Right for redistribution not granted > Huh? Which? Driver: smctr -- SMC ISA/MCA Token Ring adapter >> > "Permission is hereby granted for the distribution [...] as part of >> > a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel" > What is wrong with that? We happen to be distributing a Linux operating > system. Driver: keyspan -- USB Keyspan USA-xxx serial device We distribute it in a separate package. And it doesn't say "part of an OS" but explicitly "part of a kernel". >> > With one exception, we are not even allowed to redistribute these. > I don't understand, please explain all of these in detail so that we can > fix this upstream. >> This is what we've been discussing about. This is not really about >> Gentoo by itself, but the ability to distribute the sources at all, be >> it from us or somebody else. > I understand, and as an upstream developer, I want to see that fixed > because all distros need to be able to distribute these files for the > kernel to work properly. > Oh, and other distros, with lots of lawyers, are distributing these > firmware images as a single package, so this needs to be resolved either > by realizing that our interpretation is incorrect, or that everyone is > wrong here. Can you show me a distro that distributes above-mentioned files? Debian, for example, doesn't distribute them (AFAICS). Ulrich
