Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

jude ui u0103a at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 13:50:16 UTC 2008


On 9/16/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>
> David,
>>
>> There still looks to be firmware in the kernel source code that hasn't
>> been separated
>> out properly yet. For example, tg3.c:
>>
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/net/tg3.c;hb=HEAD
>>
>> I don't know if you're tracking that or not, but I'll need to do a legal
>> audit at some point to ensure that the firmware is all separated out
>> from the source.
>>
>
> Might want to take a look at
>
> http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html
>
> Rahul
>
> Why is there the source for firmware?
>
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