On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:29:23AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:57:33 +0300, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hopefully (but I doubt this) someone in Debian will get sued for > > this violation in Etch, to stop such a behaviour in the future. > > Nice. But the only one who can sue is the person whose > copytright we are violating -- namely, the person who provided the > firmware in the first place. I'll leave it up to you to determine > the likelihood of that.
Then why is everyone making such a fuss when i propose to say clearly how things stand with regard to GPLed sourceless drivers ? And why can't we decide to distribute all the firmwares which are in upstream, even though they happen to have a strange license which makes them undistributable ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]