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Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware





Matthew Garrett wrote:

Perhaps the easiest solution is to move all kernel packages into non-free.


There are two issues. One is that the firmware doesn't meet the DFSG,

(...)

Upstreams expressed intention to remove all firmware from kernel.
The infrastructure IMHO is not yet completly ready (the two stabe boot),
but if you talk to LKML, probably we will have a better opinion and
an incentive to people to continue the work on the new kernel
initialitation part.

Second solution:
kernel maintainer download the original kernel sources and
remove the conflicting files. Than it publish the debian
modified sources with the packages, until the kernels don't
contain offending files.

ciao
	cate



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