From: Vincent Launchbury <vincent@doublecreations.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:55:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4417D5.3050403@doublecreations.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091231044831.GB28130@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> And note, _I_ placed those images in the kernel image, after consulting
> lawyers about this issue, so it's not like I don't know what I am
> talking about here.
I'm not questioning whether it's legal to distribute non-free firmware
alongside the GPL. I'm merely saying that the firmware _is_ non-free,
which should be reflected by the ebuild licenses.
> So it's a pointless effort.
To you maybe, but it's important to some. Note that updating the
licenses would only affect those with strict ACCEPT_LICENSE settings
anyway. I don't understand why you'd oppose the change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-28 5:36 [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo Vincent Launchbury
2009-12-28 8:10 ` Rémi Cardona
2009-12-28 13:11 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-12-29 8:59 ` Peter Volkov
2009-12-29 5:24 ` Vincent Launchbury
2009-12-29 9:02 ` Peter Volkov
2009-12-29 18:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-12-29 23:17 ` Brian Harring
2009-12-28 11:21 ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-12-28 14:37 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-12-28 18:56 ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-12-28 22:15 ` Richard Freeman
2009-12-28 22:53 ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-12-29 1:16 ` Richard Freeman
2009-12-30 0:52 ` Greg KH
2009-12-30 11:43 ` Richard Freeman
2009-12-31 4:51 ` Greg KH
2009-12-31 6:02 ` Harald van Dijk
2009-12-30 0:50 ` Greg KH
2009-12-30 2:42 ` Vincent Launchbury
2009-12-31 4:48 ` Greg KH
2009-12-31 12:30 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-06 4:55 ` Vincent Launchbury [this message]
2010-01-06 18:57 ` Greg KH
2010-01-06 21:55 ` Harald van Dijk
2010-01-07 6:19 ` Vincent Launchbury
2010-01-07 14:37 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-08 5:26 ` Greg KH
2010-01-08 15:48 ` Richard Freeman
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