Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is not of dubious legal standing, and that we could get sued over for GPL violation.

Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification

2004-05-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:14:31AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: I don't think it's so much that unmodifiable license texts are considered free, but that they're a necessary bit of non-freeness. As I've suggested, I don't think that this is necessarily completely true, considering the