Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:36:12 -0700 |
| |
Ian> I think what Greg may have meant[0] was that if it bothers Ian> you, then you should act by contacting the copyright holders Ian> privately yourself in each case that you come across and Ian> asking them if you may add a little comment etc, and then Ian> submit patches once you have their agreement.
Perhaps another solution would be for someone who has received a supposedly GPLed Linux kernel from, say, SuSE, to contact SuSE and ask for the source code to things such as
static u32 tg3FwText[(TG3_FW_TEXT_LEN / sizeof(u32)) + 1] = { 0x00000000, 0x10000003, 0x00000000, 0x0000000d, 0x0000000d, 0x3c1d0800, 0x37bd3ffc, 0x03a0f021, 0x3c100800, 0x26100000, 0x0e000018, 0x00000000, 0x0000000d, 0x3c1d0800, 0x37bd3ffc, 0x03a0f021, 0x3c100800, 0x26100034, 0x0e00021c, 0x00000000, 0x0000000d, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x27bdffe0, 0x3c1cc000, 0xafbf0018, 0xaf80680c, 0x0e00004c, 0x241b2105, /* ... */
in drivers/net/tg3.c. (tg3.c does not contain any license information at all, and therefore falls under the kernel's GPLv2 license, right?)
- R.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |