Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266418AbUFQInp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:43:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266423AbUFQInp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:43:45 -0400 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:52706 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266418AbUFQInj (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:43:39 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:43:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: davids@webmaster.com, erikharrison@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200406170045.32844.oliver@neukum.org> <20040617075926.GA27938@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040617075926.GA27938@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406171043.40533.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 18 Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 09:59 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:45:32AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > This all boils down to the question of whether fimware is code or not. > > No, that's exactly the political discussion we don't want to discuss here. > The keyspan case is worse where a file used in the kernel built has a > GPL-incompatible license. Then go hence and convert the driver to the sysfs firmware interface, but please, please take the legalese off this list. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/