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[GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files
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Alexandre Oliva |
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[GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:31:16 -0200 |
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On Jan 5, 2011, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> What is Torvalds doing?
Word is that he's removing everything from within firmware/ on the next
release.
> How does he justify not including the textual
> files in his Linux sources?
He doesn't. Probably whoever split them out into the firmware/ tree
didn't even know about them at first. The latest version claims they
were developed by the pcmcia-cs project.
> Does he say he is using them under the other license?
Nope. firmware/WHENCE only mentions GPL.
> Does he say he has an arrangement to refer to the other site for the
> textual files? Does he say that the binary files are sources?
Nope, none of this.
> If he has not addressed the issue, maybe you can poke him so he has
> to do so, and then whatever solution he uses might be good for us too.
A patch was posted that brought some sanity to the .cis files in Linux
last year (Sam mentioned it upthread), but it got nowhere.
--
Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
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Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Alexandre Oliva, 2011/01/01
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/01
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Alexandre Oliva, 2011/01/02
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/02
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Alexandre Oliva, 2011/01/02
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/03
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Alexandre Oliva, 2011/01/03
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/03
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Alexandre Oliva, 2011/01/05
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/05
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files,
Alexandre Oliva <=
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/13
- [GNU-linux-libre] Re: PCMCIA .cis files, Alexandre Oliva, 2011/01/14