From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:51:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51251B23.7050406@flameeyes.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130220184322.GA12009@kroah.com>
On 20/02/2013 19:43, Greg KH wrote:
> Really? What firmware files are that way, I just did a quick scan
> through the upstream linux-firmware.git tree and didn't see anything
> that would prevent Gentoo from doing this.
No, not really. Greg, please don't expect everybody's word here to be
the Project's as you did already once - especially not if they are not
even really involved in it.
Ulrich Mueller (ulm) wrote this on the 16th:
> Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking just the first ten
> items (of a total 114):
>
> Unknown license (3 times)
> GPL, but without source (3 times)
> "All rights reserved"
> BSD, without source
> Right for redistribution not granted
> "Permission is hereby granted for the distribution [...] as part of
> a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel"
>
> With one exception, we are not even allowed to redistribute these.
This is what we've been discussing about. This is not really about
Gentoo by itself, but the ability to distribute the sources at all, be
it from us or somebody else.
--
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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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
2013-02-20 18:43 ` Greg KH
2013-02-20 18:51 ` Diego Elio Pettenò [this message]
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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