From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 02:09:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 02:09:18 -0400 Received: from c1313109-a.potlnd1.or.home.com ([65.0.121.190]:44807 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 02:09:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:07:40 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Aaron Lehmann , hugh@misc.nu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h Message-ID: <20010524220740.C8162@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20010524213404.A22585@vitelus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010524213404.A22585@vitelus.com>; from aaronl@vitelus.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:34:04PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.19 (i586) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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