Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?
@ 17/06/2004 12:26 : wrote Thiemo Seufer :
>Humberto Massa wrote: [snip]
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>>>>It's a compilation work.
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>>>Fine. The copyright for the compilation lies by the one who did the
>>>compilation. This is Linus Torvalds, I guess.
>>>
>>>Thiemo
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>>not here in BR. Or at least not in the way you _seem_ to be implying.
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>I referred only to the inclusion of some firmware in the kernel.
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>[snip: lengthy explanation]
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>>Easy, huh? extrapolate for ten+ years of patching and aggregating and
>>you'll get where we are today.
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>The firmware typically wasn't patched, and nothing is derived from it.
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>Thiemo
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Exactly my point. (You'll see I am agreeing with you in many points). My
personal conclusions of this whole matter is the following:
The upstream kernel *should* remove non-freely-redistributable firmware
from their tree.
Debian should remove those, too (for good), while the upstream doesn't
do its part.
Furthermore, Debian should move to non-free freely-distributable but
non-modifiable *or* without-source firmware.
--
br,M
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