Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone asked the upstream linux-firmware developers about these
> > files?
> 
> I don't know. I haven't, for my part. But maybe we should first try
> to produce a more complete list, instead of reporting each file
> separately? Given that most of the files are being distributed since
> years, another few days cannot matter.

Such a list would be wonderful to have.

> > thanks for the detailed descriptions, much appreciated.
> 
> > I think this is something that the Board needs to decide, after
> > discussing it with our lawyers, it's not something that non-legal
> > people (like myself) should be saying is the definitive answer.
> 
> I fully agree. And IANAL, so anything that I say about license issues
> should be taken with a grain of salt.

I am willing to work with lawyers, who know these type of things quite
well, to get upstream straightened out, given that I was the one who
originally added firmware files to the kernel, oh so many years ago,
causing this problem...

This should be a cross-distro issue/solution, so I suggest working with
the Linux Foundation on this.  Anyone object to me doing that?

thanks,

greg k-h