From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 22:11:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 22:11:31 -0400 Received: from opus.vsb.com.au ([203.63.8.61]:13062 "HELO opus.vsb.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 22:11:19 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.2 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010524220740.C8162@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 12:10:46 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: hugh@misc.nu Organization: To be determined From: Hugh Blemings To: Greg KH Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keys Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Lehmann Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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