Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261673AbVDEJeq (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:34:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261662AbVDEJcC (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:32:02 -0400 Received: from smtpout15.mailhost.ntl.com ([212.250.162.15]:54805 "EHLO mta05-winn.mailhost.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261656AbVDEJbJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:31:09 -0400 Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. From: Ian Campbell To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Sven Luther , "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg KH , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050405091144.GA18219@lst.de> References: <20050404141647.GA28649@pegasos> <20050404175130.GA11257@kroah.com> <20050404182753.GC31055@pegasos> <20050404191745.GB12141@kroah.com> <20050404192945.GB1829@pegasos> <20050404205527.GB8619@thunk.org> <20050404211931.GB3421@pegasos> <1112689164.3086.100.camel@icampbell-debian> <20050405083217.GA22724@pegasos> <1112690965.3086.107.camel@icampbell-debian> <20050405091144.GA18219@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:30:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1112693447.3086.116.camel@icampbell-debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 29 On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > 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 ;-) > > Actually patches to add firmware loader support to tg3 got rejected. > > Which is think is very unfortunately as we set the highlevel goal to > move drivers over to it. I didn't know that -- you are right that it is unfortunate. I thought Sven was talking (at least short term) about adding copyright statements/exemptions/something to the binary blobs where they are now. Ian. -- Ian Campbell It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right. - 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/