Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 22:07:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h |
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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?
thanks,
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