Re: Release team position on the state of kernel firmware, post GR2006-007

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

sven.luther@wanadoo.fr wrote:

>   * Firmware is:
>   *      Derived from proprietary unpublished source code,
>   *      Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation.
>   *
>   *      Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware
>   *      data in hexadecimal or equivalent format, provided this copyright
>   *      notice is accompanying it.
>   */
>
>Notice how clearly it states that there is *SOURCE CODE*, and thus the
>previous license, which is GPL, is violated, and you can't possible close your
>eyes on this one, claiming that the hexcode may be the prefered form of
>modification.

It also says that for the purpose of the license it is "firmware data",
and the GPL does not require source for data.


FWIW, I fully agree with the position of the release team (but I still
believe that not distributing the other firmwares is stupid and does not
help our goals).

-- 
ciao,
Marco