Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification

2004-05-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:14:31AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > I don't think it's so much that unmodifiable license texts are considered > free, but that they're a necessary bit of non-freeness. > > As I've suggested, I don't think that this is necessarily completely true, > considering the c

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so > that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is not > of dubious legal standing, and that we could get sued over for GPL violati