>> Just an update, it turns out you can get it at 
>> http://opensource.dell.com but you have to use Internet Explorer, that 
>> URL won't work through Firefox (they really don't make it easy, do they?)

Still not working for me.  According to Tamper Data these are the 
redirects I get sent through:

http://opensource.dell.com/
http://support.us.dell.com/support/opensource/Default.aspx
http://supportapj.dell.com/support/opensource/Default.aspx
http://supportapj.dell.com/support/404.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/support/opensource/Default.aspx

Perhaps it's because I'm accessing from Australia and it only exists on 
the US site?  Oddly enough when I use Internet Explorer it lets me stay 
on the US support site.  I seem to be logged in to the Dell site in 
Firefox but logging out doesn't help.

> There are a few components incorrectly marked GPLv3 in the
> iDRAC_3.0.zip file Licenses/ directory (e.g. the Linux kernel).
> Someone is looking into fixing that.  The Sources/ directory contains
> the source code and correct license files.

Is this the correct file?  It's a bit confusing which one is which.  I 
have downloaded iDRAC_1.4-1.5x.zip because my iDRAC 6 is running 
firmware version 1.54, so is iDRAC_3.0.zip newer?  Which firmware 
version does that correspond to?

> AFAIK, none of the components in the iDRAC 6 firmware
> are GPLv3-licensed, or require us to provide a full build and reflash
> environment.  That's under consideration, but not currently planned.

This is also a bit hard to work out, given that we can't actually log in 
to the DRAC command line to see what's installed.  Going from the source 
release it includes code from Samba and the GNU readline library among 
others, both of which are GPLv3.

But it also includes source for Mozilla, which I'm pretty sure is not 
going to be installed on the iDRAC, so it's hard to tell.  Going by the 
source release it definitely includes GPLv3 software.

I would very much like to see a full build and reflash environment, 
there are a number of improvements I would like to make to the DRAC - 
and of course Dell would be free to include them in future releases if 
they wanted to, so I still don't really understand why they are so 
opposed to having people work on improving their products for free...

Cheers,
Adam.

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