On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: > > > Has anyone asked the upstream linux-firmware developers about these > > files? > > I don't know. I haven't, for my part. But maybe we should first try > to produce a more complete list, instead of reporting each file > separately? Given that most of the files are being distributed since > years, another few days cannot matter.
Such a list would be wonderful to have. > > thanks for the detailed descriptions, much appreciated. > > > I think this is something that the Board needs to decide, after > > discussing it with our lawyers, it's not something that non-legal > > people (like myself) should be saying is the definitive answer. > > I fully agree. And IANAL, so anything that I say about license issues > should be taken with a grain of salt. I am willing to work with lawyers, who know these type of things quite well, to get upstream straightened out, given that I was the one who originally added firmware files to the kernel, oh so many years ago, causing this problem... This should be a cross-distro issue/solution, so I suggest working with the Linux Foundation on this. Anyone object to me doing that? thanks, greg k-h
