Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 08:04:15 -0700
From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Message-Id: <200305061504.h46F4FL19827@freya.yggdrasil.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, simon@thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: Re: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues.
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Simon Kelley wrote:
>Maybe this is the sort of thing I need:
>
>http://www.keyspan.com/support/linux/

	I believe that the keyspan drivers that compile GPL-incompatible
firmware into the kernel or kernel modules are illegal.  I tried
being a nice guy about it, to the point of wring a user level
firmware loader could be invoked automatically via hotplug:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=98758846106843&w=2.
You can look in the linux-usb-devel archives at about that time
for further discussion of the copyright issues.

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