From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C775E138AAB for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BED97E05CF; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB3F2E0023 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r1HA48P8014236 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:04:08 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r1HA48kh019573; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:04:08 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r1HA46fL019569; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:04:06 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20768.43798.568305.561675@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:04:06 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware (was: Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time) In-Reply-To: <5120654B.6050406@gentoo.org> References: <1361020086.1920.51.camel@belkin4> <511F8D2E.1080006@flameeyes.eu> <511F9A9F.8040206@gentoo.org> <511F9ADE.2050503@flameeyes.eu> <20767.41371.270947.851486@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <5120654B.6050406@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: e670e0a2-ff18-4f5a-8628-e3e5b3568b35 X-Archives-Hash: 8321b4da22567ade3c916bc07063ecd1 >>>>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Rick \"Zero Chaos\" Farina wrote: > I would be very happy to have the licensing issues fixed, it looks > like it won't be fun, however I was originally told that redist was > a required right for things to be added to linux-firmware at all so > I fear a lot of things may be out of sync in the upstream package. IIUC, they require new additions to be redistributable, but don't remove old images if they're not. Which doesn't make sense. You should consider mirror restriction for this package. Ulrich