From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757449AbYGOXen (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:34:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754647AbYGOXef (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:34:35 -0400 Received: from lsd-gw.ic.unicamp.br ([143.106.7.165]:40923 "EHLO boneca.lsd.ic.unicamp.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754511AbYGOXef convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:34:35 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , rene.herman@keyaccess.nl, david@lang.hm, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. References: <20080714.185207.203328391.davem@davemloft.net> <487C0A12.9060906@keyaccess.nl> <20080714.192425.241878700.davem@davemloft.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:33:33 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon\, 14 Jul 2008 19\:39\:03 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jul 14, 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] I like just making everybody do request_firmware(). > Do you call that a legal reason? Or a technical one? \o. Hmm, let's se... How about legal? If they don't budge in, you can terminate their license to Linux, because they are distributing your GPLed work combined with software that is not under a GPL-compatible license. :-P :-D -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}