Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-14 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> [signatories bcc'ed, except for Peter De Schrijver who Anthony> doesn't appear to be a developer] Anthony> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:53:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth Anthony> et al wrote: >> Dear Release-Managers, currently, ther

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:53:14 +0200, Andreas Barth et al wrote: > Yours, [...] My name's on this one too. -- Joshua Kwan

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:23:23PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Really? I will quote from [...]: You might like to note that that article was from 2002, and was the first time the issue was raised in a serious fashion, ttbomk. Further discussion resulted in further activites, such as the the other

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 13, Anthony Towns wrote: > GPL incompatability otoh, is something we tend to take seriously. We've > known about this issue for ages [0] and to the best of my knowledge, the > kernel guys agreed that the proper approach is to remove the firmware from > the .c files, and instead add a way o

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
[signatories bcc'ed, except for Peter De Schrijver who doesn't appear to be a developer] On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:53:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth et al wrote: > Dear Release-Managers, > currently, there is an ongoing discussion about binary-blobs in the Linux > kernels. Hrm, evidently this needs

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:53:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth et al wrote: > > We think that further discussion is necessary to come up with a proper and > working solution. The exemption will grant us the necessary time; it is not > meant to postpone this issue indefinitely. > > > Yours, > Alberto Go

please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Andreas Barth et al
Dear Release-Managers, currently, there is an ongoing discussion about binary-blobs in the Linux kernels. We all agree that Debian should only consist of free software. However, in the real world, not all problems are so easy solvable as we all wish. You have already stated an exception for docume