Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear
	copyright notice.
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: David Schmitt <david@black.co.at>
Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>,
       Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>,
       Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acenic@sunsite.dk
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Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a écrit :

> Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source code 
> for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is 
> mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware is coded 
> today in VHDL, C or some assembler and the days of hexcoding are long gone.

VHDL is a hardware description language. You don't code firmware in
VHDL.

	Xav


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