On Jan 5, 2011, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > What is Torvalds doing?
Word is that he's removing everything from within firmware/ on the next release. > How does he justify not including the textual > files in his Linux sources? He doesn't. Probably whoever split them out into the firmware/ tree didn't even know about them at first. The latest version claims they were developed by the pcmcia-cs project. > Does he say he is using them under the other license? Nope. firmware/WHENCE only mentions GPL. > Does he say he has an arrangement to refer to the other site for the > textual files? Does he say that the binary files are sources? Nope, none of this. > If he has not addressed the issue, maybe you can poke him so he has > to do so, and then whatever solution he uses might be good for us too. A patch was posted that brought some sanity to the .cis files in Linux last year (Sam mentioned it upthread), but it got nowhere. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
