On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:13:48PM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > i'd be inclined to leave the kernel source alone as if it's ok for AC then > it should be ok for us too. That has _never_ been Debian's policy. > i don't think there's much risk in doing this as > about the worst that is likely to happen is a take down order. having said > that i'm all for filing it as a bug, but i'd give it a fairly low priority > (non-critical/wishlist). It's serious, as always. Debian shouldn't be distributing it, especially not in main. Debian always follows the licenses, and that pedantic correctness is an attractive factor for many of us. > if we make a habit of respecting such licenses to the letter (usb/dvd/etc.) > then we're going to end up with one very boring/unfriendly O/S indeed. (yeah > your device is supported but first you need to go download a few bytes of > firmware from X, and recompile a module or the kernel itself). If they don't want their hardware supported, that's their problem. If you want it, you either have a choice of downloading the code, or using a distribution that doesn't care as much about licenses, like Mandrake. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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