Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
jeff
moe at blagblagblag.org
Fri Jun 20 01:50:31 UTC 2008
Anders Karlsson wrote:
> * jeff <moe at 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 at redhat.com) and Jeff Garzik
> (jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com) as authors.
>
> [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
-Jeff
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