[Fedora-legal-list] Linux firmware

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 04/29/2009 03:04 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>  * [...] this software is licensed to you
>  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 [...]
>  *
>  * Notwithstanding the above, under no circumstances may you combine this
>  * software in any way with any other $PARTY software provided under a
>  * license other than the GPL, without $PARTY's express prior written
>  * consent.
> 
> Which of the two should be taken out so that the other can be
> redistributable?  Perhaps the latter, given that it's a driver under a
> license that's not even compatible with GPLv2?

It depends on whether you consider firmware as software, and currently,
in Fedora, we do not.

Please don't start this up again, I have minimal patience for the same
tired arguments again and again.

~spot