On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:44:50PM -0000, Kyle McMartin wrote: > After talking to James Bottomley, it seems this only applies to new > firmware, which is broken on Linux anyways. The 'V17' firmware > apparently works much better, and was submitted to the kernel under the > GPL by Adaptec[1]. Would a firmware file extracted from the source code > (the aic94xx driver, as submitted, only allows request_firmware) be > acceptable, since it would be a derived work of the GPL driver, and > thus, under the GPL itself? > > I can commit the "GPL" firmware blob to ubuntu-2.6.git if you say this > is alright.
The GPL explicitly grants permission to redistribute it, so I don't see a problem here. -- - mdz -- Adaptec SAS adp94xx not in initrd https://launchpad.net/bugs/82382 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
