On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:59:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:03:07PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:29:29AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > A. Maitland Bottoms wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > I think I'll just try building out of the linux-2.6 Debian source > > > > package. > > > > > > > > Where is the svn for Debian's linux-2.6 kernel tree? > > > > > > http://svn.debian.org/ , Project "kernel". > > > > > > > I'd like to run > > > > svn blame to see where the changelog line came from: > > > > > > > > - readdition of tg3 driver, as firmware license has been fixed. > > > > > > > > Maybe that wasn't quite right. > > > > > > Tg3 is built for most other architectures. > > > > > > > I think that your interpretation of the > > > > fix in firmware license is that it improves the situation from > > > > undistributable > > > > to non-free distributable. > > > > > > > > So, perhaps this bug needs to be reassigned to linux-26, and retitled to > > > > "non-free content in kernel source packages in main should be removed > > > > (again)". > > > > > > Or probably "re-enable tg3 for powerpc and arm". > > > > Unless there are technical problems, for instance, tg3 oopses > > all the time on arm (i made that up), it should either be on > > or off uniformly for all achitecturs. The licencing battle > > should be done at the source level - if its in our tree > > then its fair game to be turned on. > > Oh, so you mean it is only off because of the split-config bug you mentioned > earlier ?
No that is not what I mean at all. What I mean is: It should either be on or off for all achitectures. The only exception should be if it is broken on a particular architecture. And: If, from a licencing point of view, it can be included in the source that we ship, then it can be provided as a binary module. If the licencing is such that we can't provide a module, we should move it into the nonfree package (which probably doesn't exist in the archive yet). Problems with split-config are tangential, they affect managing the config, but not what the config should look like. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
