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On 20/02/2013 19:43, Greg KH wrote: |
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> Really? What firmware files are that way, I just did a quick scan |
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> through the upstream linux-firmware.git tree and didn't see anything |
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> that would prevent Gentoo from doing this. |
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No, not really. Greg, please don't expect everybody's word here to be |
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the Project's as you did already once - especially not if they are not |
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even really involved in it. |
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Ulrich Mueller (ulm) wrote this on the 16th: |
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> Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking just the first ten |
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> items (of a total 114): |
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> |
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> Unknown license (3 times) |
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> GPL, but without source (3 times) |
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> "All rights reserved" |
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> BSD, without source |
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> Right for redistribution not granted |
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> "Permission is hereby granted for the distribution [...] as part of |
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> a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel" |
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> With one exception, we are not even allowed to redistribute these. |
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This is what we've been discussing about. This is not really about |
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Gentoo by itself, but the ability to distribute the sources at all, be |
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it from us or somebody else. |
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