On Sunday 06 August 2006 21:21, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the > >> >> release team > >> > > >> > I had such a plan, but no time to implement it currently. > >> > >> How do you handle the fact that it is a license violation making the > >> thing illegal to distribute? > > > > I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be > > true or at least do not consider it a problem, and this is enough for > > me to ignore the opinion of the debian-legal@ armchair lawyers. > > > > -- > > ciao, > > Marco > > I hope you do believe this to be true. Otherwise you would need to go > back to NM and do the licensing section again. There can be no doubt > that binaries without source or even a "DO NOT DISTRIBUTE" notice > break the GPL. > > As to being a problem that depends if anyone ever sues, which is > indeed unlikely. > > But Debian has also made a promise that main will be free. And the > kernel breaks that.
Ok. Looks like we need to move the kernel to non-free. Good thing nothing important depends on it. Cheers Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
