On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML > > audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere > > technicality to get out of the muddy situation, all the people having > > contributed source-less firmware blobs, need to give us (us being debian, > > but > > also all the linux kernel community) either the source if they persist in > > distributing the code under the GPL, or a clear distribution licence for > > these > > firmware blobs, and clearly identificate them as not covered by the GPL that > > the file they come in is. > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > for this _5_ years ago in debian-legal, and have yet to receive a > patch...
Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it, please ? Friendly, Sven Luther - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
