Hi all, since this is my first "license addition", I rather err on the side of caution. See the pasted text below, are there any objections against adding it and the corresponding package to the tree?
Best, Andreas
PS. The files have been grabbed from the kernel-firmware git repository on
kernel.org.
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FIRMWARE LICENSE TERMS
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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
[email protected]
http://www.akhuettel.de/
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