On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:57:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I ask because such a file is present in Debian's Linux kernel sources and
> there seems to have been no attempt to remove it, despite the upload of
> new versions since the bug report.
>
> drivers/usb/misc/emi26_fw.h:
>
> * The
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:03:16PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote:
> Traditionally people have erred on the side of caution in interpreting free
> licenses, following the wishes of the copyright holder and looking to the
> license's author for guidance. In this case the FSF indicates the binary
> firmwar
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:25AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> I would be much more convinced if I saw an argument from the
> GPL-incompatible-firmware-is-OK side as to why the GPL prohibits
> distributing linkages of GPL'd and GPL-incompatible code.
The interpretation favoured by kernel
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote:
> I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now. My
> apologies for the delay in closing this out.
Not at all, thank you for pursuing this.
> I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF
> on a GPL-c
I'd like to start by thanking Jeremy Hankins for his summary of
debian-legal's objections to the Open Software License v2.0 in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00118.html
Version 2.1 is upon us. It can be found at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-2.1.php
They do not provide
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:17:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Warning: long. CC'ed to debian-legal in case anyone there knows anything more.
How about cc'ing the author of the driver? He might know the answer.
> The source for the acenic driver is in fact in the source package for
> the k
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:15:57PM -0500, Christopher Priest wrote:
> Is this helpful
> http://web.archive.org/web/2711071330/sanjose.alteon.com/license-agree.shtml
Not really. That licence doesn't allow Debian to distribute whatever
it is that's being licenced. There's only permission for p
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved
> problem, or the ones discussing it.
Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in
the Linux source base. Last time this came up, the Aceni
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