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

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in the Linux source base. Last time this came up, the Acenic

Re: Bug#284221: acenic firmware situation summary

2004-12-13 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:15:57PM -0500, Christopher Priest wrote: Is this helpful http://web.archive.org/web/2711071330/sanjose.alteon.com/license-agree.shtml Not really. That licence doesn't allow Debian to distribute whatever it is that's being licenced. There's only permission for

Re: acenic firmware situation summary

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:17:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Warning: long. CC'ed to debian-legal in case anyone there knows anything more. How about cc'ing the author of the driver? He might know the answer. The source for the acenic driver is in fact in the source package for the

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote: I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now. My apologies for the delay in closing this out. Not at all, thank you for pursuing this. I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF on a

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:25AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: I would be much more convinced if I saw an argument from the GPL-incompatible-firmware-is-OK side as to why the GPL prohibits distributing linkages of GPL'd and GPL-incompatible code. The interpretation favoured by kernel

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-17 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:03:16PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote: Traditionally people have erred on the side of caution in interpreting free licenses, following the wishes of the copyright holder and looking to the license's author for guidance. In this case the FSF indicates the binary firmware

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:57:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I ask because such a file is present in Debian's Linux kernel sources and there seems to have been no attempt to remove it, despite the upload of new versions since the bug report. drivers/usb/misc/emi26_fw.h: * The