Revisiting a bit old issue, as I haven't seen this specific point discussed, although related points have been: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:03:49AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > severity 383481 important > thanks > > When Kyle cloned this bug, his comment was: > > > Wow. Looks a lot like copying register bank settings. Much like > > the drivers listed in Bug#383403. > > I don't believe there's any prevailing sentiment that the DFSG requires > non-numeric "source" in the case of register settings being changed; indeed, > various discussions on debian-vote and the like have explicitly acknowledged > that in cases when we *know* we're dealing with registers rather than code > compiled for an embedded processor, no source code is needed. I'm going to > go out on a limb then and downgrade this bug; it is arguably still a bug > since there is room for improvement to the source, but it's not an RC bug. We're talking about Linux kernel in this bug, and Linux is GPL, so for the code to be distributable, it definitely needs to be in "preferred form for modification" as per GPL, right (or alternatively we need permission from every GPL code contributor to the kernel)? Although I don't know if Debian makes exceptions for the kernel in this issue since upstream doesn't treat it with so much care... Sami
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