Hello, On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 01:19:01PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote: > This doesn't have anything to do with legality. You can legally > distribute these drivers. in <20061020233507.GA3118@mauritius.dodds.net> Steve Langasek clearly states in the name of the release team which drivers have to be dealt with for the release, and since the kernel team does not have the time and manpower to contact all vendors or patch all drivers BEFORE the release, we remove these drivers. > GR2006-07 specifically allows the exception for them. That's what the > debian developers voted to allow. Am I reading the results wrong? > http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_007 If you think the release team is wrong, please discuss this with them. And please send only the result to -kernel, not the whole discussion, thank you - I am not the only one who killfiles "everything firmware". > What legal advice did you receive that made you determine that it is > illegal to distribute them? IANAL, and I am the wrong one to address, see above. sorry. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG
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