Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261363AbVDDUER (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:04:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261371AbVDDUEQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:04:16 -0400 Received: from webmail.topspin.com ([12.162.17.3]:13986 "EHLO exch-1.topspincom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261366AbVDDUDm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:03:42 -0400 To: Ian Campbell Cc: Sven Luther , Greg KH , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20050404100929.GA23921@pegasos> <87ekdq1xlp.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> <20050404141647.GA28649@pegasos> <20050404175130.GA11257@kroah.com> <20050404182144.GB31055@pegasos> <1112641971.4342.8.camel@cthulhu> From: Roland Dreier Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:36:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1112641971.4342.8.camel@cthulhu> (Ian Campbell's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:12:48 +0100") Message-ID: <523bu6gwr7.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2005 19:36:12.0682 (UTC) FILETIME=[8F25EEA0:01C5394D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1334 Lines: 28 Ian> I think what Greg may have meant[0] was that if it bothers Ian> you, then you should act by contacting the copyright holders Ian> privately yourself in each case that you come across and Ian> asking them if you may add a little comment etc, and then Ian> submit patches once you have their agreement. Perhaps another solution would be for someone who has received a supposedly GPLed Linux kernel from, say, SuSE, to contact SuSE and ask for the source code to things such as static u32 tg3FwText[(TG3_FW_TEXT_LEN / sizeof(u32)) + 1] = { 0x00000000, 0x10000003, 0x00000000, 0x0000000d, 0x0000000d, 0x3c1d0800, 0x37bd3ffc, 0x03a0f021, 0x3c100800, 0x26100000, 0x0e000018, 0x00000000, 0x0000000d, 0x3c1d0800, 0x37bd3ffc, 0x03a0f021, 0x3c100800, 0x26100034, 0x0e00021c, 0x00000000, 0x0000000d, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x27bdffe0, 0x3c1cc000, 0xafbf0018, 0xaf80680c, 0x0e00004c, 0x241b2105, /* ... */ in drivers/net/tg3.c. (tg3.c does not contain any license information at all, and therefore falls under the kernel's GPLv2 license, right?) - R. - 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/