Bug#597897: Current status of alsa-firmware?
> Unfortunately, some of the blobs in alsa-firmware are purportedly licensed
under the GPLv2,
> but without source code available.
> The same problem exists for some blobs that were moved out of the linux
> tree, but since they were included in Linux tarballs for many years
> without objection from the copyright holders it is probably safe for
> kernel.org and other distributors to continue distributing them.
> However I am not prepared to put anyone at legal risk by adding more of
> these.
Clear.
> I think we need someone to review the licence status of blobs in
> alsa-firmware and determine which of them are clearly redistributable.
> Then these can be added to linux-firmware.git and to Debian's
> firmware-nonfree.
Who should be a person which can help with this? debian-legal?
Should we rise the severity to serious?
best regards
Jaromir
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