Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:25:59PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
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> Frederik Schueler wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:30:34PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> >> I emailed the contact address at Intel about e100, but it seems to forward
> >> to tech support. We'll see if anything comes back.
> >
> > what did you write them?
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> Tried to describe the problem in detail and asked for either source or a
> distribution license which didn't require source. Fool at the other
> end said "It's licensed under GPL, so you don't need anything more"
> (even though I *said* that didn't work in my email). I told him "You're
> wrong. Please forward this to Intel's lawyers."
Please, let us handle this in the future. We need a template letter, which we
can probably publish openly somewhere (send it to slashdot or something), and
then approach the different vendors about it, possibly through relays of
contacts we may have inside those organisations or something.
What we need help with, is identifying who those upstreams are, email
addresses and other such stuff, and that this information is added to the wiki
page about it.
> > IMHO, the topmost priority should be to get DFSG-free sources and an
> > in-tree build infrastructure for the firmwares, like the aic7xxx driver.
> >
> > We should ask the vendors to relicense the blob and implement
> > request_firmware only if they strictly refuse to provide sources.
> >
> > It also would be interesting to know if the blobs are actually code or
> > register bank settings, as they don't need to be removed in the latter
> > case, not being software at all.
> >
> > Maybe we should prepare a document template which we can send to all
> > vendors, listing the reasons for our actions and possible actions we see
> > they could take, everything in a friendly legalese so we can expect a
> > real answer.
>
> We should. I've had such bad luck that I suggest someone else write the
> template.
Hehe. Let's take the broadcom letter as a first draft ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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