[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>For each offending file, there are three possible solutions:
>1. Get the author to release source code under a DFSG-free license
>2. Move the firmware to non-free, patching the driver to use
>   request_firmware()
>3. Delete the driver and firmware entirely.
4. Recognize that the project has been hostage of a few licensing kooks,
tell them to fsck off and move on.

>AFAIK, the best outcome yet from the relicensing discussions
>on http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing is to properly
>permit the redistribution of the binary, without source code.
I consider it data, there no need for special arrangements to distribute
the data of a GPL'ed program.

-- 
ciao,
Marco


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