Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Nathanael Nerode: >> Until they do one of these two things, the firmware is not safe to >> distribute. > > Of course it is safe to distribute. What do you fear? That Broadcom > might sue you for distributing something that they have written and > released under the GPL, and actually have a case? They might as well > sue Debian because the toolchain supports the SB-1 architecture.
Indeed. It's obviously the intention of the licensor to provide code that can be distributed. There are potentially issues with derived works containing a combination of the firmware and other GPLed code, but that's why we'd consider non-free rather than anywhere else. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]