From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>, hugh@misc.nu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:07:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010524220740.C8162@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010524213404.A22585@vitelus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010524213404.A22585@vitelus.com>; from aaronl@vitelus.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:34:04PM -0700
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:34:04PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> This message sparked a long thread on the debian-legal mailing list,
> which is long since dead. I am personally very curious about whether
> this has been resolved upstream. I consider it a very important issue,
> which is why I asked for RMS' opinion. He said that what is being done
> is clearly not "mere aggregation", and that such firmware should be
> moved out of the kernel (and even the tarball) to stop violating the
> GPL and make Linux be free software.
Last I heard, Hugh was talking with the Keyspan people to get this
resolved. But that was a few weeks ago.
Any news Hugh?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-25 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-25 4:34 Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 4:55 ` Copyright for drivers- two SCSI HBA drivers Matthew Jacob
2001-05-25 5:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2001-05-28 2:10 ` Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keys Hugh Blemings
2001-05-25 10:00 ` Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h John Cavan
2001-05-25 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 16:17 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105242155540.4849-100000@beppo.feral.com>
2001-05-25 5:57 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:26 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-05-25 6:31 ` Aaron Lehmann
[not found] <mailman.990765360.7016.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-05-25 6:02 ` Pete Zaitcev
[not found] <200105250559.f4P5x80365151@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
2001-05-25 6:03 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 6:42 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 7:02 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-25 7:05 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 10:56 ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-25 11:56 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 12:44 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-25 9:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 16:06 ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-25 10:36 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 17:02 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 17:23 ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2001-05-25 18:30 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-25 22:30 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-26 1:43 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-25 19:14 ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-26 2:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-26 4:52 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-05-26 3:10 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 11:00 ` James Sutherland
2001-05-29 0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-29 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-29 0:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-26 11:09 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-29 1:38 Adam J. Richter
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