Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261355AbVDDT4V (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:56:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261358AbVDDT4V (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:56:21 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:19930 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261355AbVDDT4O (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: <42519BCB.2030307@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:55:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Wilcox CC: Greg KH , Sven Luther , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jes Sorensen , linux-acenic@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. References: <20050404100929.GA23921@pegasos> <87ekdq1xlp.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> <20050404141647.GA28649@pegasos> <20050404175130.GA11257@kroah.com> <20050404183909.GI18349@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050404183909.GI18349@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 28 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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 Acenic firmware was > mentioned: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html > > Seems to me that situation is still not resolved. And it looks like no one cares enough to make the effort to resolve this... I would love an open source acenic firmware. Jeff - 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/