Hi, first of all, I wonder why so few people from the teams involved take part in this discussion. I assume one reason might be that they prefer IRC. However, debian-vote is the list that's supposed to hold the important information for the vote, isn't it?
Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:08:40AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: >> Indeed, so we need to strip those GPLed firmwares ? > > I'm not going to repeat myself on that again. No need to do that - I didn't read anything substantial from you yet. >> 5. We further note that some of these firmware do not have proper license, > > Again, no, Debian is not distributing anything we're not confident we > have a valid license to distribute. And no, "confident" doesn't mean > "certain beyond all possible doubt" -- it means we make a good faith > attempt to comply with the stated wishes of the rights holders. The problem is that several people (also on -legal) have shown evidence that some of the firmware under discussion never was intended to comply with the GPL, for various reasons. I don't feel well with just ignoring this evidence. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
