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Bug#449235: Intel wireless firmware in firmware-nonfree



Hi,

On Sunday 04 May 2008 19:12, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > This was interpreted by at least one person that the license needs to
> > > pushed in the same directory on the mirror than the package.
> > And because there is one person interpreting this differently than the
> > licencing party itself, Debian shall not do what the licencing party and
> > the users would like to see?
> Who wants to define that someone is not allowed to define a binary dump
> as source and publish it under the GPL and we are therefor not allowed
> to distribute such things?

Even after reading this three times and having my second coffee I fail to 
understand what this paragraph has to do with the ipw2x00 firmware. It's not 
GPLed.

Maybe I need a third coffee though.

> > The question where this discussion is documented is still open.
> Somewhere in the IRC logs.
> Update: Just found it, was between aba and me, in #debian.de, 25.5.2006.

So there is no public log. (And it was probably also in the wrong language :)

> >                                                                 And the
> > question whether you as the maintainers agree with that one person or if
> > you going to change this...
> If the ftp-team acks it, I have no problem with that.

Cool.

So let's get their confirmation.


regards,
	Holger

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