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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:25:14PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Greg KH wrote: |
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> > > If there really are firmware blobs that are only available via git and |
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> > > which cannot be redistributed we might consider whether it makes sense |
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> > > to not support them entirely, or to force them to be masked. |
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> > Did anyone actually consider the fact that there should not be |
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> > non-redistributable firmware blobs in the upstream git tree in the |
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> > first place, as it is the thing that is doing the redistributing |
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> > originally? |
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> I think non-redistributable in this case means "by Gentoo" since that |
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> was identified to be the case for some of the files in the git |
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> repository. Their license allows them to be distributed in |
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> linux-firmware.git, but not elsewhere. |
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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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What did I miss? |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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