Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261670AbVDEKwm (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:52:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261679AbVDEKwm (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:52:42 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58285 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261670AbVDEKwk (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:52:40 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andres Salomon Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:42:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <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> <1112693287.6275.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050405093258.GA18523@lst.de> <1112693819.6275.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050405093902.GA18669@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-24-194-62-26.nycap.res.rr.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, debian-legal@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 15 On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:39:02 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but >> from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. > > I think that's what we should do. I currently don't have any firmware > requiring devices, but I'd volunteer to keep such a tarball for now if > no one else wants to do tiny amount of work. FYI, I just created this, it might be useful for all this: http://wiki.debian.net/?KernelFirmwareLicensing I'm still adding driver information.. - 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/