Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261713AbVDGHRr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:17:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261758AbVDGHRr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:17:47 -0400 Received: from vanessarodrigues.com ([192.139.46.150]:47340 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261713AbVDGHRf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:17:35 -0400 To: Sven Luther Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. References: <20050404100929.GA23921@pegasos> <1112610065.6270.46.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050404105937.GB24882@pegasos> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 07 Apr 2005 03:17:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050404105937.GB24882@pegasos> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 38 >>>>> "Sven" == Sven Luther writes: Sven> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:21:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven Sven> wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: >> >> please take this discussion elsewhere. Also please never cc three >> such Sven> Ok, can you please point to me where is the place it should be Sven> taken off ? I suppose you mean LKML ? Yes please! >> lists on the same posting, there is absolutely no point in doing >> that. Sven> We already had this discussion on debian-legal and Sven> debian-kernel, so i included them for documentation purpose, so Sven> people there can follow the discussion even if they don't follow Sven> LKML which is rather high volume. As the discussion already was Sven> hold there, i don't believe you will see many comments from Sven> them. Sven> So, i posted to LKML directly, as i believe that it is where Sven> this needs to be solved, as only the copyright holders can fix Sven> this licencing problem, and currently the kernels distributed Sven> from ftp.kernel.org are not legally distributable. Feel free to have your own legal oppinion about whether or not those kernels can be distributed. However please keep that discussion elsewhere. If you want the firmware situation changed, I'd recommend spending your time on improving the firmware loader interface instead. Thanks, Jes - 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/