Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

[Les Mikesell]

jeff wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> jeff wrote:
>> That would be a reasonable change.  How is it done in drivers where 
>> the firmware has always been known to be non-GPL but 
>> redistributable?   tg3 might be a special case due to its copyright 
>> change.
> 
> The firmware hasn't always been known to be non-GPL. It was distributed 
> for years under the GPL, so it *is* GPL, but they are violating the GPL 
> by not shipping the source code.
> 
> Have you even looked at tg3.c or it's history?
> 

Just a quick google to find the discussion here:
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing with its note that the 
corrected license was committed here:
http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=49cabf49abd7676d026a61baabf5aae9337a82be;hp=9beb1d587f690d5b2f9087f8f10c0ff9f6b66886

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