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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rddunlap@osdl.org, steve@steve-parker.org
Subject: Re: PWC issue
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:01:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040829050107.GB19005@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408290206.i7T267e16663@adam.yggdrasil.com>

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 07:06:07PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 	I hasten to add that, while I think that the binary firmware
> images that I believe violate the GPL should be removed from the
> kernel immediately, there are also some binary firmware images
> covered by GPL compatible copying permissions, which include
> source code, such as xircom_pgs.S.  For the GPL-compatible
> firmware binaries that include source code, I have no problem
> with a six month warning period.

I understand that we currently disagree about this point, and am
comfortable with our disagreement :)

So, what do you want to do?  If no one sends me a patch to even provide
the option of the images moving out of the kernel at some point in time,
it's not going to get done.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-29  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-29  2:06 PWC issue Adam J. Richter
2004-08-29  5:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-29  4:25 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-29  0:20 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-28 17:50 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-28  5:19 ` Greg KH
2004-08-28 15:11   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-28 15:33     ` Kasper Sandberg
2004-08-28 16:12     ` Greg KH
2004-08-28 17:26       ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-28  0:57 Steve Parker

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