On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:03 +0900, Horms wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:14:02PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:24:27 -0700, NIC Technology Support wrote: > > > > > Below is a response to your case number CS00003271 submitted to Broadcom > > > NIC Technology Support. > > > > > > Case Title: GPLed driver and binary-only firmware blobs. > > > > > > Response from Broadcom: Can you please check with your Legal team and let > > > me know if the following license is acceptable by them: > > > > > > > > > The license below looks good. Do you plan to release a new version of the > > firmware with this license included, or are you going to give us > > permission to redistribute the existing firmware under this license? If > > the latter is the case, we can submit a patch to add the license to the > > kernel for you. > > I think that it is important that this is submitted upstream, > though it would probably be better if it came directly > from Broadcom, as I think you suggest, rather than via Debian. >
Given the emails we have, I don't think we'd have problems convincing upstream (in this case, jgarzik would be merging into his net-2.6 branch) to include the license update patches. Either way works for me, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
