Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can't remember at the moment if it's a firmware block or whatever it > was, but it is not included in the kernel tree because of licensing > reasons. Red Hat includes it directly from Adaptec's site because their > views of free software are a bit different lately I guess. Oddly this is > the first non-free driver to come out of Adaptec in years, I don't know > what came over THEM either.
I am looking at a RHEL 2.4 and vanilla 2.6 kernels now - nothing binary under aic7xxx. The device firmware may be binary, and you might need to get updates directly from Adaptec, but that has nothing to do with the kernel and is no more a problem than, say, the BIOS. I see that some files are under what looks like BSD license, some are dual BSD/GPL, and some (Makefile, Config.in, some generated files) do not have explicit license in them. If either is a problem for Debian... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
