Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

[Les Mikesell]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:53 -0300, jeff wrote:
>>> I am perfectly willing to be educated/corrected and I have heard 
>>> arguments from both sides that have merit, I am tempted to send a copy 
>>> of the GPL  to my lawyer and get the interpretation of someone who 
>>> doesn't have a horse in this race.
>> Please do. And show him a copy of tg3.c too please. :)
> 
> Along with the quotes from one of its authors, who also happens to be
> the overall network driver maintainer for Linux, and has stated that
> each driver and its firmware are 'intimately tied... pieces of a single,
> cohesive whole'.

That would be a hard claim to support, knowing that at least some of the 
firmware comes from the hardware vendor, has nothing in particular to do 
with Linux, and may be also used by OS's that have no code in common.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com