-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:30:34PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> I emailed the contact address at Intel about e100, but it seems to forward >> to tech support. We'll see if anything comes back. > > what did you write them?
Tried to describe the problem in detail and asked for either source or a distribution license which didn't require source. Fool at the other end said "It's licensed under GPL, so you don't need anything more" (even though I *said* that didn't work in my email). I told him "You're wrong. Please forward this to Intel's lawyers." > IMHO, the topmost priority should be to get DFSG-free sources and an > in-tree build infrastructure for the firmwares, like the aic7xxx driver. > > We should ask the vendors to relicense the blob and implement > request_firmware only if they strictly refuse to provide sources. > > It also would be interesting to know if the blobs are actually code or > register bank settings, as they don't need to be removed in the latter > case, not being software at all. > > Maybe we should prepare a document template which we can send to all > vendors, listing the reasons for our actions and possible actions we see > they could take, everything in a friendly legalese so we can expect a > real answer. We should. I've had such bad luck that I suggest someone else write the template. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFIbwnRGZ0aC4lkIIRAkVMAJ9hyCXGFWAsAKToY1bXuevfaxvm8gCeIp1X FSGVya7Z10aARlLz1B+OYRw= =mOI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
