From: Hugh Blemings <hugh@misc.nu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keys
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 12:10:46 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010528121046.hugh@misc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010524220740.C8162@kroah.com>
Hi Greg,
On 25-May-2001 Greg KH wrote:
> 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?
Will follow it up.
Cheers,
Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-28 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ 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 ` Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h Greg KH
2001-05-28 2:10 ` Hugh Blemings [this message]
2001-05-25 10:00 ` John Cavan
2001-05-25 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 16:17 ` Alan Cox
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