Re: tg3 driver fails
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:09:55 -0400 (EDT)
>
>> Yes, this is a known problem. The firmware has been removed from the
>> driver due to unclear licensing information and failure to comply with
>> DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines).
>
> I would like to personally thank the Debian project for making life
> miserable for it's users and making many platforms totally
> uninstallable and unusable due to this decision.
>
> I am sure every user who can't use Debian on his system out of the box
> because of this firmware problem will not mind because the high moral
> standards of the Debian project are much more important than a properly
> working system.
As the user concerned, I'd like to disassociate myself from that. If
there isn't a clear licence on something, it shouldn't be distributed.
If it's clearly not free software, it shouldn't be in Debian (ignoring
documentation, some of which I wrote and obviously consider free when
Debian doesn't). In fact, if it's not free software, I wonder what
it's doing in the Linux sources.
(Someone could, perhaps, tell me where to get the relevant file and
what to do with it so that the Debian kernel can find it. The 2.6
driver apparently wants `tg3/tso-1.4.0', but I can't see where that
comes from in the vanilla tarball.)
The original blocking issue for installation wasn't actually the
network card, and the current one isn't either.
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