Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 05:36:17 EST


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but
> from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it.

I think that's what we should do. I currently don't have any firmware
requiring devices, but I'd volunteer to keep such a tarball for now if
no one else wants to do tiny amount of work.

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