Bug#1033227: marked as done (unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1)

2023-03-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:03:32 +0100 with message-id and subject line Re: Bug#1033227: unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1 has caused the Debian Bug report #1033227, regarding unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1 to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Bug#1033227: unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock X-Debbugs-Cc: live-tasks-non-free-firmw...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:live-tasks-non-free-firmware Please unblock package live-tasks-non-free-firmware This is provides

Processed: unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1

2023-03-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > affects -1 + src:live-tasks-non-free-firmware Bug #1033227 [release.debian.org] unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1 Added indication that 1033227 affects src:live-tasks-non-free-firmware -- 1033227: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Re: Bug#1031238: debci: fails for source packages in non-free-firmware

2023-02-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 confirmed On 13-02-2023 20:45, Andreas Beckmann wrote: src:nvidia-graphics-drivers recently moved from non-free to non-free-firmware since the firmware-nvidia-gsp binary package was moved to that section, too. Ack. Tracker reports autopkgtest for nvidia-graphics-drivers/n

Re: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#449497: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free firmware

2008-10-31 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Michael! Adding the d-release mailing list to cc:. On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:41:25 +0100, Michael Gilbert wrote: i'll go ahead and start the discussion since no one else is running with it. this matter is rather urgent since the problem is now being considered release-critical for lenny.

Re: foo2zjs: application depends on non-free firmware

2008-10-26 Thread Luca Capello
be less than important [2], it's *anyway* not more than that. On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:40:34 pm Joost Yervante Damad wrote: Hi Luca, [3] not that I checked with such printers, I'm only in touch with one that needs a non-free firmware http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Re: foo2zjs: application depends on non-free firmware

2008-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
severity 449497 serious thank you i don't see how this bug can be considered anything less than serious. as i explained in my last message, there are two potential grave problems: security and breakage. and even if neither of these problems exist now, they certainly could arise during the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
of the non-free firmware or your image or sound, is that it is transported in the same binary, and used as data offloaded to the peripheral device. Assume the image/sound was rendered/generated from some source format not included in the source. E.g. povray input. So ? What has

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, now that we agreed that those modules need to go into non-free, but that provided their licence is clear enough, like in the tg3 case, they are indeed distriutable in non-free, let's go back to the initial point. This is upstream work, and work which

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Dickinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:52:01 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have always been a problem and have always violated the license of the rest of the kernel. It is just that nobody noticed or cared before but now the cat is out

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
in the same deb. Well, the FSF argues that it is not important where the file is, as long as there is a logical link, in order to have the GPL cross the dynamic linking barrier. In the same way, the only relationship of the non-free firmware or your image or sound, is that it is transported

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:46:18AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it an aggregation with the image linked into the binary? It doesn't matter for Debian's purposes. While the GPL permits shipping a GPL'd program merely aggregated alongside a non-free program, we don't ship the nonfree part no matter what, so

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware will never run

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware will never run inside the same memory space as the kernel, and are offloaded to a peripheral processor, and the communication media between the kernel and this peripheral processor running said firmware is clearly defined

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has little to do with Debian main. It is a problem for the linux upostream

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
, there is no way i see that we can deal with this in a timely fashion without delaying etch by a year or so. Remember that d-i and kernel freeze date was planned last week. Furthermore, there is no evidence that future upstream version of the kernel will not add more such non-free firmware, so

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Nathanael Nerode wrote: [snip] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing is grossly out-of-date, but I will integrate the relevant information from that in the process. KernelFirmwareLicensing is supposed to track information about mis-licensed firmware. IIRC you mentioned to have found at

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And even for an aggregation of works the DFSG holds and you are still in trouble. Sure, the DFSG says that we need the source code for those, and

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And even for an aggregation of works the DFSG holds and you are still

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not familiar enough with how library are run, but there is some very different way in which libraries called by programs work, and the way

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has little to do with Debian main. It is a problem for the linux upostream authors to support the hardware with free

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't lose track of the fact that there's nothing inherently wrong with a sourceless binary if that's all the source anyone *has*. I think in most of the cases under consideration, we have firmware which a hardware manufacturer wrote and then

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:49:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here are proposing. In my opinion, we have been screwing our users for years by lying to them

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) either move the individual affected drivers or just their firmware if possible to non-free, and keep the cripled kernel in main. This is certainly the last resort, in my opinion, but it isn't crippled. Merely not supporting particular pieces of

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. We do not need a GR to simply follow our existing procedures. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:57:36AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) either move the individual affected drivers or just their firmware if possible to non-free, and keep the cripled kernel in main. This is certainly the last resort, in my

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. We do not need a GR to simply follow our existing

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. We do not need a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
that there was non-free firmware in the kernel, and we decided to ignore it for the sarge release. We explicitly did *not* decide to ignore it forever. Maybe, but the kernel team was really operational, and not saddled with broken legacy packaging only after the sarge release. So, basically, you

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Scores in that thread: who how many -- A. Spragg 1 A. Thornton1 B. Gerardo 1 D. Dickinson 1 F. Schueler1 G. Danchev 1 G. von Brederlow 4 J.

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hallo, On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:02:42AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: We can simply take our time to do (2). It is the job of a package maintainer to check the licenses of their software; if the kernel team cannot do so by December, even with help, I don't mind waiting. then, please,

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Jeff Carr
On 08/02/06 22:17, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Start with drivers/char/drm/mga_ucode.h. This is distributable, because it's under a BSD license, but it's not free software, because there's no source code. There is no source code, because there never was any source code. What do you think

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
are distributability issues, while some are clearly distributable and simply non-free. Some may be fixed by a new upstream version. Some may be fixed by implementing firmware loading and a non-free firmware package; some may be fixed by moving the driver to an out-of-tree kernel module; others may be fixed

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:49:32AM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Joseph Neal
On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. i.e. screwing our users. Why do you think people use debian? It's not the most up to date distro or the most stable (damn close though).

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Adam Thornton
my appliance work, that's a very nice feature. My position on non-free firmware is that distributing it certainly seems, to my untrained eye, to violate the Social Contract, and this needs to be addressed somehow, whether by dropping support for those devices, amending the Contract

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My position on non-free firmware is that distributing it certainly seems, to my untrained eye, to violate the Social Contract, and this needs to be addressed somehow, whether by dropping support for those devices, amending the Contract, or seeking

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:52:01 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have always been a problem and have always violated the license of the rest of the kernel. It is just that nobody noticed or cared before but now the cat is out

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # Our priorities are our users and free software We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of our users for operation in many

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here are proposing. In my opinion, we have been screwing our users for years by lying to them about whether their software was free. We would even say things like hardware

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Dickinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If permission is given to distribute the blobs unmodified (i.e. read from disk, upload to device), then the question is about the social contract. Personally I think firmware blobs shouln't be covered, because the reasons free software is important

Re: Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread BALLABIO GERARDO
May I remind you all that debian-release is NOT a discussion list? I think the respective positions are clear. Now can the release team please step in and say what their view on the matter is, which AFAICS is the only reason why this thread should belong to this list? Gerardo

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:50:54PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, i don't believe there is much choice left to the kernel team in this issue but to ask for a waiver of the DFSG compliance for the kernel for etch, and hope the d-i folk take

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:23:31AM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: These are fine words, but how do you think they can translate into reality ? We don't currently have the ressources to do it the way it should be done,

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
notice break the GPL. No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware will never run inside the same memory space as the kernel, and are offloaded to a peripheral processor

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
again. There can be no doubt that binaries without source or even a DO NOT DISTRIBUTE notice break the GPL. No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thiemo Seufer
file. Those non-free firmware will never run inside the same memory space as the kernel, and are offloaded to a peripheral processor, and the communication media between the kernel and this peripheral processor running said firmware is clearly defined, there is no doubt

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: untruth in what i said above, or in the other mail ? Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. i.e. screwing our users. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software No Matter How Much It Helps Our Users. Now think about why we do not do it. It does not matter. Different members of Debian have different reasons. We

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now think about why we do not do it. It does not matter. Different members of Debian have different reasons. We have all agreed to work together on the basis of the Social Contract, which says that We Do Not Distribute Non-Free

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now think about why we do not do it. It does not matter. Different members of Debian have different reasons. We have all agreed to work together on the basis of the Social Contract, which

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:26:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: untruth in what i said above, or in the other mail ? Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. Yeah, well, sure there is, but

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software No Matter How Much It Helps Our Users. Now think about why we do not do it.

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:49:32AM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team I had such a plan, but no time to implement it currently. How do you handle the fact that it is a license violation

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: In linux.debian.kernel Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be true or at least do not consider it a problem, and this is enough for me to ignore the opinion of the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Sven Luther
are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware will never run inside the same memory space as the kernel, and are offloaded to a peripheral processor, and the communication media between the kernel

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In linux.debian.kernel Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real issue here is one of freedom and DFSG and not one of legality anyway. Those firmware are not DFSG-free and have nothing to do in main, and this is the real problem. They were not a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Danchev wrote: On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: In linux.debian.kernel Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be true or at least do not consider it a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, i don't believe there is much choice left to the kernel team in this issue but to ask for a waiver of the DFSG compliance for the kernel for etch, and hope the d-i folk take their responsabilities a bit more seriously for the etch+1 release. Or, the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be true or at least do not consider it a problem, and this is enough for me to ignore the opinion of the debian-legal@ armchair lawyers. We already know that the lawyers of SuSE and Red

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I became a developer long before the NM process was created, and I agreed to follow the unclarified social contract. Are you unwilling to follow the current Social Contract? If so, you should resign, and yesterday. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.kernel Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can be done about this? Accept that most people do not consider this a problem? First of all, this is false. Most Debian developers agree with me. You This is unproven. think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In linux.debian.kernel Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can be done about this? Accept that most people do not consider this a problem? First of all, this is false. Most Debian developers agree with me. You This is unproven. It is also

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.kernel Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can be done about this? Accept that most people do not consider this a problem? -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In linux.debian.kernel Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can be done about this? Accept that most people do not consider this a problem? First of all, this is false. Most Debian developers agree with me. You think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060110 21:16]: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: difference to this. It might however make an difference to GPL-compatibility, unless the license is GPL-compatible anyways. Nope, please read my posts on debian-legal about this

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: how can you consider it as non-program. It is indeed composed of machine code destined to run on the controller of the device the driver is written for. This is incorrect. I know firmware[tm] blobs which only includes data. You can't

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:56:44PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: how can you consider it as non-program. It is indeed composed of machine code destined to run on the controller of the device the driver is written for. This is

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060111 12:57]: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: how can you consider it as non-program. It is indeed composed of machine code destined to run on the controller of the device the driver is written for. This is incorrect. I

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: how can you consider it as non-program. It is indeed composed of machine code destined to run on the controller of the device the driver is written for. This is incorrect. I know firmware[tm] blobs which only

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060111 12:57]: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: how can you consider it as non-program. It is indeed composed of machine code destined to run on the controller of the device the driver is written for.

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:14:10PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Sven Luther wrote: 2) there are now drivers which contains non-free firmware blobs, with explicit licence, and these are thus distributable. A quick search for fw_ revealed 159 such files in 2.6.15. I would like

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Kyle McMartin wrote: The question is: when you remove the firmware from the driver, and all it is, is a file sitting in /lib/firmware/; and it's contents are just non-executable hex, Sorry, it is executable. For instance, the tg3 code is simply MIPS binary which can be disassembled with

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: licenced modules. If we don't want to do that, the most honest way to handle it is to get another GR out the door,explaining that this is not easily possible or convenient at this time, and asking for an explicit exception for kernel firmware. I would second such a GR. I

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Second, the issues with the installer -- Your analysis of the modules that would be needed by the installer does not take all possible installation methods and hardware combinations into account, notably missing a) network cards b)

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:13:18PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: current fact is that the qlaxxx firmware is gpl, so on has all it's right in main. It is GPL, except for the binary blob of firmware, as the two constitute separate work, this is not a violation of the GPL. The exact licence, that

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:03:13PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: In 2004, there was a GR that decided to put everything in main under the DFSG. We had some discussions, but in the end, the result was that all the non-free firmware bits have to be removed from main before we can release etch

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
significant problems unless we are able to provide better infrastructure for such modules in the installer. c) we move the firmware in non-free, and actively use the request_firmware mechanism. Seems like a pretty good division, but if there are users who *need* the non-free firmware, we still

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Kyle McMartin
3) an effort seems to be happening inside the upstream kernel to use the request_firmware infrastructure which allows to load firmware code from userland through an hotplug mechanism. There seem to be more and more drivers going this way, since there aare more in current git than

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Kyle McMartin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060110 16:20]: I would argue it's the former. I can see the argument when it's a part of the source code, but not when it's a completely seperate entity. Sorry, but there is no difference regarding DFSG: If the binary blob is actually seperated from the

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:45:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: You may redistribute the hardware specific firmware binary file under the following terms: 1. Redistribution of source code (only if applicable), must retain the above copyright notice, this list of

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:38:21AM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:45:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: You may redistribute the hardware specific firmware binary file under the following terms: 1. Redistribution of source code (only if applicable),

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:00:53AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: 3) an effort seems to be happening inside the upstream kernel to use the request_firmware infrastructure which allows to load firmware code from userland through an hotplug mechanism. There seem to be more and more

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Kyle McMartin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060110 16:20]: I would argue it's the former. I can see the argument when it's a part of the source code, but not when it's a completely seperate entity. Sorry, but there is no difference

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
licenses and needs to be put in non-free. the problem is that there are two issues : 1) non-distributable modules, because the licence was messy. 2) distributable modules with non-free firmware. tg3 and qla2xxx used to be in the first class, and due to relicencing

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
, like the acenic one, partly because of the demise of the company producing them and various acquisitions which left the IP in an unknown state nobody seems to bother with. 2) there are now drivers which contains non-free firmware blobs, with explicit licence, and these are thus distributable

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:03:13PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I think everyone agrees that a) is not a possibility. Both b) and c) require a non-negligible amount of work, altough b) is less work than c), but c) is the better solution, and also to the best of my knowledge the one which upstream