Re: Keyspan Firmware fun

2001-04-28 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Walter Landry quotation: > I also don't see a (legal) problem with GPL programs that just move > unfree data around. Otherwise cp would have serious use > restrictions. However, cp doesn't contain within itself the unfree > data. The keyspan drivers do. Debian distributes Apach

Re: Keyspan Firmware fun

2001-04-28 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:24:54PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: > I do not believe the keyspan_usa*_fw.h files are illegal by > themselves. However, compiling them, keyspan.c and 402 other include > files generates a keyspan.o file that has content covered by many > different copyrights. A

Re: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-04-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:34:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Braakman wrote: > > We usually allow some time for license issues to be resolved. In the > > extreme case of KDE it was more than a year :) > > You forget: KDE was removed from the archive during that time. No, I'm specifically