Debian Developers - Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

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Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

Joe Wreschnig

2004-06-20, 10:24 pm

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:51, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:35:43AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
>
> Any chance you guys could come to some kind of consensus on this so I
> know what has to be done for the debian package?

The current release policy says that all firmware not licensed under
GPL-compatible licenses needs to be removed. It also says that any
sourceless firmware needs to be removed.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...6/msg00064.html

Depending on the outcome of GRs, it might change so that only the former
class has to be removed.

Either way, firmware not licensed under a GPL-compatible license needs
to be removed.
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Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>