Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

Sven Luther writes:

> Hello,
>
> <quick sumary>
> Current linux kernel source hold undistributable non-free firmware blobs, and
> to consider them as mere agregation, a clear licence statement from the
> copyright holders of said non-free firmware blobls is needed, read below for
> details.
> </quick sumary>
>
> Please keep everyone in the CC, as not everyone reads debian-legal or LKML.

This question comes up every four or five months.  You might have even
been the last one to raise this question on one or more of the mailing
lists you cc'ed.  Please, go check the list archives for the previous
(lengthy and multiple) discussions about this topic.

Michael Poole
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