hello dave, i appreciate a lot your opinon, but please cool down. this is not a four spin on your beloved pipe. :)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:38:32AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:33:18 +0200 > > > we have to strip the firmware for Debian for the upcoming Lenny release. > > Why do you "have to"? The vendor has given you explicit rights > to distribute it: > > * Firmware is: > * Derived from proprietary unpublished source code, > * Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation. > * > * Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware > * data in hexadecimal or equivalent format, provided this copyright > * notice is accompanying it. afair the trouble is that it does not give permission to change unlike some other gpl or bsd licensed blob. so it is dfsg non-free and not suitable for main distribution. > This whole firmware stripping thing in debian is beyond rediculious > and only serves to hurt users. i'm not of the d-legal department, but seeing free firmwares would be cool. -- maks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
