On Sad, 2004-04-17 at 06:44, Ryan Underwood wrote: > 3) Neither of these is ok, must go into non-free because binary-only > firmware doesnt meet DFSG (no source) regardless of its license. Either > whole driver must go into non-free, or a crippled driver is provided in > main and a userspace loader in non-free to add the missing > functionality.
This is the answer I was given by lawyers. The analogy they use is an interesting but sensible one. If I add a chapter to a book it is clearly a derivative work, if I bundle the one work with a second pamphlet containing the chapter I wrote then it is not. > 3 is a rather zealous approach, but seemed to be the approach that the > "do-ers" on this issue are taking. I sympathize with the idealists on I don't think its "zealots" so much as appropriate legal practice. In the Linux case we now have a good hotplug firmware loading interface and drivers can practically ask for specific firmware. It also reduces the unswappable kernel size ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
