Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

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Subject: Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
From: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:29:43 +0100 (CET)
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glenn@zewt.org wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
>> The larger problem is to identify non-free blobs in the main kernel,
>> extract them into non-free and modify the driver so that it is able
>> to load the blob from a user provided location; and include this in
>> our installer.
>Isn't this being done upstream, anyway, for GPL-compatibility purposes?
It's not, because almost everybody believes that the result is
aggregation and not a derived work.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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References:
- Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
  - From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
- Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
  - From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
- Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
  - From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
  - From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
- Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
  - From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>

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