From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:25:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220182514.8755.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130220182232.GA11082@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> > If there really are firmware blobs that are only available via git and
> > which cannot be redistributed we might consider whether it makes sense
> > to not support them entirely, or to force them to be masked.
>
> Did anyone actually consider the fact that there should not be
> non-redistributable firmware blobs in the upstream git tree in the
> first place, as it is the thing that is doing the redistributing
> originally?
I think non-redistributable in this case means "by Gentoo" since that
was identified to be the case for some of the files in the git
repository. Their license allows them to be distributed in
linux-firmware.git, but not elsewhere.
//Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-16 13:08 [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time Pacho Ramos
2013-02-16 13:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-02-16 13:41 ` Aaron Bauman
2013-02-16 13:44 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 13:59 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-16 14:00 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-16 14:10 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 15:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-16 15:14 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-16 16:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-16 16:28 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-02-16 17:35 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-16 18:40 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-02-16 15:18 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 15:43 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-17 17:40 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-18 4:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2013-02-18 11:22 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-18 13:11 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-18 21:02 ` Rémi Cardona
2013-02-16 14:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-16 14:42 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 15:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-17 5:06 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-17 10:04 ` [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware (was: Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time) Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-19 14:18 ` [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-20 4:43 ` [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware Duncan
2013-02-20 6:03 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 7:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-20 8:16 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 9:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-20 16:19 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-20 16:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-20 16:52 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-20 8:37 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-20 12:02 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 12:10 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2013-02-20 13:29 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-20 13:31 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 13:17 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 16:03 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 16:10 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 18:22 ` Greg KH
2013-02-20 18:25 ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2013-02-20 18:43 ` Greg KH
2013-02-20 18:51 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-21 17:26 ` Greg KH
2013-02-21 17:44 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-02-21 18:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-21 19:55 ` Greg KH
2013-02-21 20:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-21 21:22 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-21 22:44 ` Greg KH
2013-02-21 23:18 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-22 1:54 ` David Abbott
2013-02-22 20:53 ` Roy Bamford
2013-02-21 22:16 ` Duncan
2013-02-20 16:28 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-20 16:37 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 16:45 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 17:01 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 19:18 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-20 17:17 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 17:25 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 17:28 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 17:32 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 17:42 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 19:20 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-20 19:24 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 19:40 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-17 10:05 ` [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time Michał Górny
2013-02-17 10:09 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-17 11:42 ` Michał Górny
2013-02-18 5:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2013-02-17 17:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-16 21:45 ` Tim Harder
2013-02-18 10:43 ` Sven Eden
2013-02-18 13:23 ` Anthony G. Basile
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