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[PATCH 0/5] Expose upstream linux sources

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Message #34 received at 61454-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 61454-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#61454] [PATCH 0/5] Expose upstream linux sources
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:23:35 +0100

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> writes:

> Hi Jelle!
>
> jlicht <at> fsfe.org 写道：
>> * Is this fundamentally going to be an issue with the FSDG?
>
> I can't think of a reading of the FSDG where it is not against 
> both the letter and the spirit.
>
> Guix already ventures close to the edge; this would push us clean 
> over.

Fair enough. I'll go ahead and assume that any "workaround" using public
bindings exposed by guix can be considered a bug, later to be addressed
by guix in order to prevent similar situations.

>> * This is the 'dumb' solution; alternatively, I was thinking of 
>> introducing a
>>   record to unify all the moving parts (the upstream sources, 
>>   the deblob
>>   scripts) involved in building our linux-libre kernels.
>
> I'm not sure this will suit your purposes any better without 
> amounting to the same thing.

It does, so never mind!

Thanks for your input,
- Jelle

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