On Thursday 23 November 2006 05:49, James Oakley wrote: > t does not matter how you got something. If you do not have explicit > permission to redistribute you cannot do it. That's applies to anything > under copyright. One of the rights granted by the GPL is redistribution, > which makes Linux distributions possible. > > > Perhaps > > ubuntu HAS explicit permission, or a loophole in the law due > > to non US ownership. > > I doubt Broadcom would give permission to Ubuntu and nobody else.
On another thread it was suggested that ubuntu does not distribute the firmware, but does distribute a script to fetch it from broadcom's site (and perhaps other sources). I don't know it this is true. But it would certainly be compatible with the GPL, and not totally unlike what opensuse does with ATI drivers. The ATI RPMs appear to be built by the opensuse people on their build farm but only distributed from ATI's website and repository. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
