On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved
> problem, or the ones discussing it.
Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in
the Linux source base. Last time this came up, the Aceni
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:15:57PM -0500, Christopher Priest wrote:
> Is this helpful
> http://web.archive.org/web/2711071330/sanjose.alteon.com/license-agree.shtml
Not really. That licence doesn't allow Debian to distribute whatever
it is that's being licenced. There's only permission for p
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:17:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Warning: long. CC'ed to debian-legal in case anyone there knows anything more.
How about cc'ing the author of the driver? He might know the answer.
> The source for the acenic driver is in fact in the source package for
> the k
I'd like to start by thanking Jeremy Hankins for his summary of
debian-legal's objections to the Open Software License v2.0 in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00118.html
Version 2.1 is upon us. It can be found at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-2.1.php
They do not provide
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote:
> I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now. My
> apologies for the delay in closing this out.
Not at all, thank you for pursuing this.
> I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF
> on a GPL-c
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:25AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> I would be much more convinced if I saw an argument from the
> GPL-incompatible-firmware-is-OK side as to why the GPL prohibits
> distributing linkages of GPL'd and GPL-incompatible code.
The interpretation favoured by kernel
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:03:16PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote:
> Traditionally people have erred on the side of caution in interpreting free
> licenses, following the wishes of the copyright holder and looking to the
> license's author for guidance. In this case the FSF indicates the binary
> firmwar
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:57:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I ask because such a file is present in Debian's Linux kernel sources and
> there seems to have been no attempt to remove it, despite the upload of
> new versions since the bug report.
>
> drivers/usb/misc/emi26_fw.h:
>
> * The
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