Les Mikesell wrote:
jeff wrote:
> Anders Karlsson wrote:
>> * jeff <moe(a)blagblagblag.org> [20080619 23:00]:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Well, Red Hat added it to the Linux kernel before the "Derived from
>>> Proprietary Sources" line was added. How do you know Red Hat doesn't
>>> have or never had the source to it? I don't think they have it, but
>>> I've never seen them say they didn't.
>>
>> Can you provide the commit ID showing that it was Red Hat that
>> committed it to the upstream Linux kernel source tree? I'm actually
>> curious to have a look at that commit.
>
> Somewhere else in this thread, jeff wrote:
> > The "GPLing" of the driver (MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")) and the
> inclusion of
> > a chunk of non-free code occurred in commit [1]
> > 2d8a9d3fd19147c808aa39ddc69a743d1c90f199.
> >
> > The commit shows David S. Miller (davem(a)redhat.com) and Jeff Garzik
> > (jgarzik(a)mandrakesoft.com) as authors.
> >
> > [1]
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
>
> -Jeff
>
Per the debian discussion on this topic at
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing this was fixed in this
commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit...
(i.e. the GPL indication removed).
But that is simply wrong. Did you go to your own URL? It doesn't remove *a
single line*. It just added (in 2005):
+ * Derived from proprietary unpublished source code,
+ * Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation.
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware
+ * data in hexadecimal or equivalent format, provided this copyright
+ * notice is accompanying it.
-Jeff