On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML
> > audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere
> > technicality to get out of the muddy situation, all the people having
> > contributed source-less firmware blobs, need to give us (us being debian, but
> > also all the linux kernel community) either the source if they persist in
> > distributing the code under the GPL, or a clear distribution licence for these
> > firmware blobs, and clearly identificate them as not covered by the GPL that
> > the file they come in is.
>
> What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution
> for this _5_ years ago in debian-legal, and have yet to receive a
> patch...
Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html
Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it,
please ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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