On 9/29/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Now, the RMs seem to have some notion, from the hurried discussion we had > yesterday, that they seem to interpret your post as allowing to distribute > sourceless GPLed firmware, because the GPL licence is DFSG free. Er, yes, because that's what the resolution *says*. It says that for firmware in etch we're only going to worry about licenses, *not* source.
How can you say so? It *also* says "as long as we are legally allowed to do so". When speaking of GPL, if you are worrying about license and what is legally allowed, then you are automatically also worrying about source. There is no way Debian is legally allowed to distribute sourceless GPLed firmware. Section 3 of GPLv2 makes it clear that it's just not possible. I hope you are not yielding to the pressure to release an Etch which would break copyright law, but unfortunately this seems to be the case :( -- Markus Laire Disclaimer: IANAL, IANADD