Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Humberto Massa wrote:
> But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting 
> around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the 
> firmware blobs in the kernel (-- ok, *if* you consider that hex dumps 
> are not source code). What Sven asked was: "Hey, can I state explicitly 
> the distribution state in the source files, by means of adding some 
> comments?".

> I think even a clarification "this firmware hexdump is considered to be 
> the source code, and it's GPL'd" would do, but I must put my asbestos 
> suit everytime I say it. :-)

We do not add comments to the kernel source code which simply state the 
obvious.

	Jeff