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Bug#183557: marked as done (RFP: kernel-patch-non-free-drivers -- Non-DFSG Linux Kernel "bits")

Your message dated Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:29 -0600
with message-id <E1IcPZF-0004Df-1T@merkel.debian.org>
and subject line WNPP bug closing
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Subject: RFP: kernel-patch-non-free-drivers: non-DFSG Linux Kernel "bits"
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2003-03-05
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : kernel-patch-non-free-drivers
* License : Several
SMC Token Ring says it's "strictly for use in conjunction with the use of
SMC TokenRing adapters." The rest are non-free due to no source being
included.
Description: non-free parts of the Linux Kernel
"Non-free bits" were removed from Debian's Linux kernel source and images.
Non-free means that their licenses do are not DFSG compliant (see
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines for details).
As of the writing of this RFP the following bits were removed/disabled:
* Keyspan firmware.
* SMC Token Ring firmware, driver disabled.
* ACENIC firwmare, driver disabled.
* DGRS firmware, driver disabled.
* DAB firmware, driver disabled.

Information about the "bits" and their licenses can be found in bug
#150052 at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=150052

Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>, the maintainer of various Linux kernel
packages says the recommended way to include these "bits" is to package
them separately.
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:24:00 +1100
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Drew Scott Daniels <umdanie8@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:24:49PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> In debian/README.Debian it says "Non-free bits removed:...." What is the
> recommended way of including these "bits"?

Well you'll need to find a Debian developper willing to package them
separately.
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     Drew Daniels

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Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).

To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:

 reopen 183557
 stop

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
183557@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.

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