Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

Wed Sep 17 00:28:51 UTC 2008

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> David,
> 
> There still looks to be firmware in the kernel source code that hasn't
> been separated
> out properly yet. For example, tg3.c:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/net/tg3.c;hb=HEAD
> 
> I don't know if you're tracking that or not, but I'll need to do a legal
> audit at some point to ensure that the firmware is all separated out
> from the source.

Might want to take a look at

http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html

Rahul