hey all, i'm desperately trying to get a snapshot or two of the prism54 driver into portage, but there's some legal... "hangups" with regards to the firmware image. The problem is the terms of the firmware images' redistrubtion is completely in the air. From http://prism54.org/firmware/ :
<snip> Firmware versions, Re-distribution license, Usage license, and "open source" firmware There are only a few firmware files out there. In this page we list a collection of them by version number. We do not yet have a re-distribution license for them by Intersil (or globalspanvirata or Conexant) but since Intersil wrote the original GPL driver and then supported the Open Source community in mantaining it, we figure it's only fair we're allowed to redistribute them here. Our official permission is pending. We do not have a "usage" license but should we get one, I'm pretty sure it'll just say you can use the firmware in whatever way you want except reverse-engineering. </snip> So... for now i'm adding a RESTRICT="nomirror" and adding it to portage, and i've sent an email to prism54-devel asking for clarification. Do people think we should force the user to download the firmware by hand, or is the nomirror enough? -pete -- Peter Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key ID = 0x6EFA3917 Key fingerprint = A90A 2518 57B1 9D20 9B71 A2FF 8649 439B 6EFA 3917
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