Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262314AbVDGIfR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 04:35:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262364AbVDGIe1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 04:34:27 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:22281 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262365AbVDGIcH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 04:32:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:32:05 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Xavier Bestel Cc: David Schmitt , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Jes Sorensen , Matthew Wilcox , Greg KH , Sven Luther , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acenic@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. Message-ID: <20050407083205.GA74679@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Xavier Bestel , David Schmitt , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Jes Sorensen , Matthew Wilcox , Greg KH , Sven Luther , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acenic@sunsite.dk References: <20050404100929.GA23921@pegasos> <20050404183909.GI18349@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200504071004.32692@zion.black.co.at> <1112861835.8281.204.camel@gonzales> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1112861835.8281.204.camel@gonzales> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 20 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 ? 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a ?crit : > > > 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. If the firmware, or part of it, is uploaded to a fpga you do (or Verilog instead of VHDL, same difference). OG. - 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/