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

2005-04-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:34:56AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: For tg3 a transition period shouldn't be needed as firmware loading is only needed on old/buggy hardware which is not the common case. Or to support advanced features which can be disabled. TSO firmware is commonly used these days.

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do anything about it

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. I think that's what we should do. I currently don't have any firmware requiring