On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and > > that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the > > GPL, so why not say it explicitly ? > > I don't think anyone here has disagreed. What almost everyone has said > however is "so go and do it" -- go do the research, contact the > copyright holders directly and get the permission to make patches, then > post them here.
Ok. I have some doubts about doing the work, and it then being rejected and i did the work first, which is why i asked. It seemed a reasonable thing to ask, and my analysis of the problem was sound, so why didn't i get a, yeah, go ahead, instead of this rejection ? > There is really no point in discussing it here, just get on and do it. As i said, some may know things about relationship, or lack thereof, with the copyright holder, i believe that the people who added those firmware blobs are all reading this here, and it is from them that i wanted feedback, but it failed to produce that effect. /me will investigate bk and how to get the information on who signed those changes off and commited them :) 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/
