Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear
	copyright notice.
From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org,
       debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:49:25 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:32 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > > I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and
> > > that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the
> > > GPL, so why not say it explicitly ? 
> > 
> > I don't think anyone here has disagreed. What almost everyone has said
> > however is "so go and do it" -- go do the research, contact the
> > copyright holders directly and get the permission to make patches, then
> > post them here.
> 
> Ok. I have some doubts about doing the work, and it then being rejected and
> i did the work first, which is why i asked. It seemed a reasonable thing to
> ask, and my analysis of the problem was sound, so why didn't i get a, yeah, go
> ahead, instead of this rejection ?

I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_
weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people
are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do
anything about it -- so prove them wrong ;-)

Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell

knghtbrd: there may be no spoon, but can you spot the vulnerability in
eye_render_shiny_object.c?
        -- rcw

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