Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

jeff moe at blagblagblag.org
Mon Jun 16 03:31:19 UTC 2008


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 22:39 -0300, jeff wrote:
>> To me it appears quite clear that Broadcom is distributing a GPL'd
>> file, and thus has to turn over the source code.
> 
> I would encourage you to pursue this with Broadcom, as they are clearly
> the copyright holder for the firmware.

Well, and RedHat too. They appear to be the ones that actually added it to the 
Linux kernel and likely work with Broadcom. Does RedHat have a copy of the source?

-Jeff




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