Bug#383403: closed by maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> (Re: Bug#383403: linux-2.6: includes nondistributable and non-free binary firmware)
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:57:52AM -0700, ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov wrote:
>
> I'm aware of #242866, and I'd be happy to work within
> that report. Something about it seems broken, however,
> because RC-buggy linux-2.6 packages keep making it into
> testing. Is it obvious how to keep this from happening,
> without starting a new bug attached to linux-2.6?
if you feel like it reassign it,
anyway linux-2.6 is frozen and propagation to testing
is coordinated with the release and the d-i team.
> Take a near-random example: drivers/scsi/qlogicpti_asm.c
well that's not a ramdon sample as linus was _always_ joking
on the size of the diffstat due to qlogic firmware upgrades.
on the other side a good example to remove people access to
their discs.
> If you find any of those 59 files that does _not_ look
> like it was machine-generated from source code at some
> point in its history, or find comments from the author
> explaining how they wrote those files from scratch by
> typing in hex numbers, please let me know so I can
> correct my inventory. If you can even show hints that
> a file is miscategorized, I would be happy to participate
> in constructive discussion.
>
> Your throwaway one-liner above is not a good start.
your thrown away grepping is the bad start.
anyway if you want to improve the legal situtation use:
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing
dilinger succeeded in various firmware relicensing
thanks to his quest to the vendors. feel free to pick up.
--
maks
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