Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
- Cc: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>, linux-acenic@sunsite.dk
- Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:05:42 +0100
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On Llu, 2005-04-04 at 21:47, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bluntly, Debian is being a pain in the ass ;-)
>
> There will always be non-free firmware to deal with, for key hardware.
Firmware being seperate does make a lot of sense. It isn't going away
but it doesn't generally belong in kernel now we have initrd and
firmware loaders.
Alan
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