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Re: Firmware removal progress



On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 17:10 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 00:44:45 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 00:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I'm going to post a series of patches that aim to fix the RC bugs
> > > relating to sourceless firmware.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, a quick search suggests that there is still more left:
> > 
> > file                               licence       distributable
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > drivers/char/drm/mga_ucode.h       GPLv2         no
> 
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> 
> That's not GPLv2, and is distributable.

Yup, I noticed that myself since then.

I now have patches (mostly by David Woodhouse and Jaswinder Singh) to
remove all of these as well.  Again, I'm lacking the hardware to test
them.

Ben.

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