Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

[Les Mikesell]

jeff wrote:
> 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
> 

Per the debian discussion on this topic at 
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing this was fixed in this 
commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=49cabf49abd7676d026a61baabf5aae9337a82be;hp=9beb1d587f690d5b2f9087f8f10c0ff9f6b66886
(i.e. the GPL indication removed).

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   Les Mikesell
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