Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
- Cc: David Schmitt <david@black.co.at>, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acenic@sunsite.dk
- Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:46:11 +0200
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Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:32 +0200, Olivier Galibert a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a écrit :
> >
> > > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source code
> > > for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is
> > > mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware is coded
> > > today in VHDL, C or some assembler and the days of hexcoding are long gone.
> >
> > VHDL is a hardware description language. You don't code firmware in
> > VHDL.
>
> If the firmware, or part of it, is uploaded to a fpga you do (or
> Verilog instead of VHDL, same difference).
Oh yes, I was dense.
Xav
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