On 05/07/2017 at 01:52, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandroselli@???):
>
> [b43 firmware BLOB]
>
>> It goes there *after* is was extracted out of the proprietary driver.
>
> I'm of course aware of that -- but that's irrelevant to what I was
> saying, which is that it fails to qualify as an example of compiling a
> firmware BLOB into a GPLed driver.

It is relevant in proving you cannot do that and *lawfully* distribute the
module, which is what I have kept saying.

> In any event, you seem to keep trying strenously to turn this into a
> discussion about distribution.

I am not turning it into it, I am keeping it into it.

> That's nice, but it simply wasn't what
> we were talking about.

You might at most speak for yourself. Go through the thread again (if you
ever did that, which at this point I doubt).

> I'm guessing that you wish to attribute to me an
> opinion about that to argue with, but I didn't express or imply one in
> this thread.

Your opinions were pretty clearly stated. The issue is that you keep your
words floating in the realm of opinions, all the while avoiding to provide
the technical solution that would put everything to rest:

    «  If you disagree, kindly point out what other method is available
    that allows a kernel to lawfully feed a controller a
    [proprietary] firmware before mounting the root FS.»
    (edited)

Alessandro