I had the same confusion as you. The only way I could make sense out of it all is that Canonical did not obtain the same (non-transferable) "distributor" license as Fedora core (and perhaps Debian), and instead must abide by the end-user license license: http://www.adaptec.com/adapteccom/templates/driverdetail.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fen-us%2fspeed%2fscsi%2flinux%2faic94xx-seq-30-1_tar_gz.htm&NRCACHEHINT=Guest which would indeed forbid distribution.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1101636 Title: LICENSE.aic94xx-seq in linux-firmware - is this firmware distributable? Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: For this specific license it appears that this License is rather restrictive. In clause two it appears that this package cannot be distributed. I think this is a bug right? :) The Fedora Core 18 counterpart looks like: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/aic94xx- firmware.git/tree/LICENSE.aic94xx?h=f18 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1101636/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
