[Gnewsense-dev] [KERNEL] report on actual bugs

[crap0101]

Hi!
Here's a report about open bug regarding the kernel:

* (mach64.h) http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00212 

About the mach64.h bug, there's no news.  I and the fsf licencing team
have tried to contact ATI, but no answer yet.
If someone have technical/licence knowledge useful for this, please
share it :) 


* (mroute.h) http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00287

Regarding mroute, I wrote also in the linux-libre mailing list, this is
the A. Oliva answer
http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2009-June/000654.html
about. Like suggested, I took a look into the mroute package, but like
said in the bug's page, the fragmentetion make difficult to find the
lines of code used in the lnux version. This may take some time (I still
don`t do that).
More info about this bug:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Bad_Licenses
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg04177.html

* (cfi.h) http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00243

mailing the linux-libre list, A. Oliva said that's not a bug:
http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2009-June/000653.html
what do you think?

Also, I got response for address@hidden They said:

Il giorno mar, 30/06/2009 alle 16.31 -0400, Donald R Robertson III via
RT ha scritto: 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
> 
> > address@hidden - Fri Jun 05 09:06:10 2009]:
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > I'm Marco.
> > 
> > checking the Linux Kernel, I've got probably non free file "cfi.h"
> > located in /include/linux/mtd folder of the kernel's source package.
> > Is similar to the mach64.h [gnu.org #384122] issue but,
> 
> In this case it might be a little different. As far as I can
understand,
> we have some code that was made available by Intel through that site,
> and that site actually does include licensing terms for the content
> being downloaded. Unfortunately the terms are extremely restrictive,
and
> are absolutely non-free.
> 
> Intel has been supportive of free software in the past (they made
> numerous assignments to the FSF), so it might be possible to get
> alternate permission to use this code.
> [...]


Every comment and suggestion is appreciated :)





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