On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 11:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > The license this driver is under is not F/OSS, but it's not as > restrictive as the license on the Windows driver.
The instructions at http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 don't refer to any Windows drivers. They already refer to distributable files. > It explicitly allows > redistribution, in unmodified form. So it wouldn't be okay to extract > the firmware from this driver and just package that, but distros *could* > package the entire driver (without ever actually using it) and then > automatically extract the firmware from it when setting up b43. This > would finally solve the Firmware Minefield issue caused by distros not > being able to ship firmware for b43 in any way. That's a question to distros. I think they have good reasons not to ship non-free software with restrictive licenses. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
