Les Mikesell wrote:
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
They changed the kernel source then, but that doesn't mean they aren't under
obligations of the GPL since they distributed it for *years* under the GPL.
-Jeff
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