Hello, Carsten wrote: > > Marcus, please correct me if I am wrong: > > > > * The driver is GPL, but without your special firmware > > the driver does not work. > > > No, without the correct driver the card+firmware does not work :-)
Hups, you're right :-) But the question was: "is there a chance to use the driver _without_ you're firmware modification? Or is the modification so generic, that ther is no need to change that ever?" > > * The firmware is not GPL and there is a risk that due > > to legal problems it will no longer be distributed in > > the future. > > binary-only firmwares. The firmware even runs on a different CPU. > Even on the same CPU binary-only modules which interact with GPL > modules and the kernel are allowed. We don't see a problem. But the permission to the firmware code of fujitsu-siemens is granted to convergence? So what would happen, if convergence would go down? Andreas Steinhauser -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
