Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:16:48 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. |
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Humberto Massa wrote: > But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting > around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the > firmware blobs in the kernel (-- ok, *if* you consider that hex dumps > are not source code). What Sven asked was: "Hey, can I state explicitly > the distribution state in the source files, by means of adding some > comments?".
> I think even a clarification "this firmware hexdump is considered to be > the source code, and it's GPL'd" would do, but I must put my asbestos > suit everytime I say it. :-)
We do not add comments to the kernel source code which simply state the obvious.
Jeff
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