On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:53:36PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > I was reading through the QuickSetup (deleting several no longer needed > steps), and I noticed the whole business of extracting the recommended > firmware from several files. I got me wondering if someone ever asked > Hauppauge for permission to just redistribute these firmwares.
Yes :) > Although, now that I'm thinking of it, perhaps it is Conexant who owns these > rights. But we can still play it through Hauppauge. It would save a lot of > hassle if we could just package them with the driver. Yes :) I'm working on a license to allow free distribution of the firmware in such forms (e.g. source blobs). Anyone interested can join the ivtv thinks-I-am-a-lawyer taskforce :) Hauppauge's unofficial statement is to freely redistribute the firmware. It will become offcial with such a license. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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