Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
Evan Prodromou wrote:
>>>>>> "AB" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
> AB> I still don't get the point why it is OK to say "this file is
> AB> covered by the GPL" when all it contains is compiled binary
> AB> code.
>
>Because it might not be compiled. It might be the actual original
>source.
In the case in question, we're talking about over 300K of hex per
device. Do you really believe that someone wrote that by hand?
This argument is silly. The infrastructure to solve the problem (ie,
move the code out of the kernel and do it all in userspace) already
exists. Why don't we just do it?
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org
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