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SubjectRe: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keys
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

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