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Re: DRAFT for a GR proposal concerning the Sarge release



Martin Pitt wrote:
[snip]
> > 	It is one thing to unknowingly violate a license (though it
> >  probably does nor reduce the liability); delibratly distributing
> >  copyrighted software after you knew you did not have the right to
> >  distribute it is another.
> 
> Then I suggest to immediately switch off all Debian FTP mirrors, since
> we do ship these packages at the moment, and we _know_ that they
> violate the GPL.

Do we? WRT kernel firmware, the driver authors seem to see it as a
collection of works (with the firmware being one part), and at least
I tend to prefer the author's opinion over third-party interpretations.


Thiemo

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