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

2005-04-07 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Humberto Massa wrote: David Schmitt wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:25, Jes Sorensen wrote: [snip] I got it from Alteon under a written agreement stating I could distribute the image under the GPL. Since the firmware is simply data to Linux, hence keeping it under the GPL

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

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Humberto Massa wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary images of the kernel. Full stop.

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

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 avril 2005 ÿÿ 11:50 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a ÿÿcrit : You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal