From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:27:24 +0000 Subject: Re: a3load.hex Message-Id: <1129397244.3413.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20051014134617.42227.qmail@web30703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051014134617.42227.qmail@web30703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 06:46 -0700, william baroniunas wrote: > > How are folks in the Linux community handling this > issue? Are there hotplug distributions that have > extracted this file, as well as the ezusb functions? > Or has everyone simply ignored the copyright? To keep > open source as real open source, it should ONLY > include files that apply to a GPL-like license. I think you'll find that one of the principal uses of hotplug is to allow the distribution of firmware with distros. For instance, I have some firmware for the device I am working on which is BSD licenced. In Linux 2.4 all this was whacked into a header in the kernel and distributed under the GPL. Although the source was freely available, GPL purists could have argued it was tainting the kernel (in fact there are not enough Dreamcast users to make an issue of this). However, hotplug allows me to distribute the firmware in userspace and keep the kernel GPL-pure. In other cases the firmware won't even be available on BSD-type terms. In that case if we followed your advice (on licences NOT copyright by the way) we'd have nothing. As an aside: is the reply-to header not set on this list deliberately? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel