Firmware licence question

[Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)]

20.08.2009 18:01, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello, All!
>
> 2009/8/20 Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)<forum at ru.bir.ru>:
>> I very want see this driver in Fedora:
>> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/dkms-tiacx/
>> This is free and even packaged, so no problem there...
>
> This module has very sad story - since, it was made as a result of
> direct reverse engineering (no "clean room" techniques were used), it
> produced series of flamewars in LKML. As a result it was rejected from
> inclusion into main kernel tree. More to say, the firmware status is
> also unclear.
>

Ehhh, shit.
Peter, thank you for clarification. Can you provide link to this 
discussion in LKML if don't forgot how find it?