Re: Plan for tomorrows (20080522) FESCO meeting

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:18:22AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> kernel.  And, heck, this one doesn't even grant permission for
> redistribution.  What are those Linux-no-libre guys thinking?

Well we were thinking (and much legal advice seems to agree) that the firmware
is a separate work. Like your BIOS for example.

We had been gradually moving firmware to user space via request_firmware until
various free software extremists made such idiots of themselves on the kernel
list a couple of years ago everyone stopped because they were so p***ed off
with them.