On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 19:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:51:03PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:38, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > > * Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040615 21:27]: > > > > I request that the people planning to take over kernel maintenance > > > > comment > > > > ASAP on their plans regarding this issue, and what sort of help would be > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > would it be ok if they hand in their humble suggestions at your > > > front desk in written form? or would you rather want them to > > > report to you in person? > > > > > > hint: your tone is not appropriet and you are not the one to > > > order them around. > > > > Then who is? This problem has been known about for a long time, and a > > lot of developers would like to see some progress on it. No one should > > *need* to order Debian developers to follow copyright law in their > > Debian work; it should be the default. Plus, I'd rather Nathanael do it > > than the US government. (I also found his tone civil, if curt.) > > > > It's not even a request to remove it, just one asking for some > > indication on what kind of schedule or plans are going on, and *an offer > > for help*. > > The correct thing to do was what I did -- contact the USB maintainer, who > was previously unaware of this problem: > > <gregkh> willy: cool, I got back a response with an email from emagic giving > the blessing to include the drivers in linux. > <gregkh> willy: just looks like I need to add the following: > <gregkh> Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware > <gregkh> image as part of a Linux or other Open Source operating > system kernel > <gregkh> in text or binary form as required. > <gregkh> as the keyspan drivers have. > > So, problem resolved. No need to remove anything.
At best that solves a third of the problem. What about all the other copyright holders of the kernel, have they agreed to link with the non-GPLd code? (Before someone tells me kernel developers don't care, or "this isn't linking", [0]) And once the copyright issue is dealt with, there's still the issue of meeting the DFSG. This is as good first step. But nothing is yet "resolved". [0] http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-18/1472.html -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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