On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:59:30 +0000
Adam Retter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  >> In principle I am happy to run with this. However the main problem 
> is that the purists will not accept a driver that isn't 100% Open 
> Source. Since the firmware and Globespan proprietary routines are in a 
> library they will probably tell you to go away. If not let me know.

Closed firmware is only a problem if there are restrictions on the
redistribution. If you look in /etc/firmware you'll see a lot of closed-source
firmware.
If the firmware is freely redistributable then there's no problem.

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Lars Hansson

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