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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:51:15PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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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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Of course not, I know better than that from -dev, I've been around long |
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enough :) |
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That's why I was asking for specifics. |
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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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> > Unknown license (3 times) |
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Which ones specifically? |
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> > GPL, but without source (3 times) |
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Really? Which? |
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> > "All rights reserved" |
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That's not an issue, unless it is alone, is there something else in the |
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license as well? |
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> > BSD, without source |
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There's no problem with that. |
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> > Right for redistribution not granted |
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Huh? Which? |
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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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What is wrong with that? We happen to be distributing a Linux operating |
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system. |
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> > With one exception, we are not even allowed to redistribute these. |
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I don't understand, please explain all of these in detail so that we can |
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fix this upstream. |
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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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I understand, and as an upstream developer, I want to see that fixed |
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because all distros need to be able to distribute these files for the |
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kernel to work properly. |
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Oh, and other distros, with lots of lawyers, are distributing these |
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firmware images as a single package, so this needs to be resolved either |
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by realizing that our interpretation is incorrect, or that everyone is |
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wrong here. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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