Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 03:45:59 EST


Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 09:59 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:45:32AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > This all boils down to the question of whether fimware is code or not.
>
> No, that's exactly the political discussion we don't want to discuss here.
> The keyspan case is worse where a file used in the kernel built has a
> GPL-incompatible license.

Then go hence and convert the driver to the sysfs firmware interface,
but please, please take the legalese off this list.

Regards
Oliver
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