On Mar 4, 2009, Richard M Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > e100 might be a simpler task, and nearly as useful: there's some > indication in the driver that the processor that runs the microcode is > 8086, the microcode snippets are small (limited to 134 32-bit words), > and a very large number of Intel chipsets are bundled with network > interfaces that require this microcode.
> What license is this released under? The entire file drivers/net/e100.c is under this license, no exceptions noted: Intel PRO/100 Linux driver Copyright(c) 1999 - 2006 Intel Corporation. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. > Another more challenging piece of firwmare is that for Broadcom Everest > network cards, bnx2x driver. It's a pretty large, often-changing chunk > of (IIRC MIPS-targeted) management firmware. I have no idea of how > widely deployed it is. > What license is this released under? drivers/net/bnx2x_init_values.h doesn't have copyright notices or licensing terms. In the Linux community, this means the license is supposed to be GPLv2. Furthermore, I suppose this file was split out of bnx2x_init.h, that says: /* bnx2x_init.h: Broadcom Everest network driver. * * Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Broadcom Corporation * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation. just like all other bnx2x* files in drivers/net, except for bnx2x_link.c and bnx2x_link.h, that say: /* Copyright 2008 Broadcom Corporation * * Unless you and Broadcom execute a separate written software license * agreement governing use of this software, this software is licensed to you * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, available * at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html (the "GPL"). * * Notwithstanding the above, under no circumstances may you combine this * software in any way with any other Broadcom software provided under a * license other than the GPL, without Broadcom's express prior written * consent. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
