Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-06-06 Thread Bjørn Mork
David Woodhouse writes: > If you do nothing with the firmware, but it merely exists in your clone of > the git tree (by virtue of TI's having deliberately put it there), what > exactly are you restricted from doing? Downloading the firmware. That's only allowed if you are authorized and wil

Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:56 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > In reality every transfer over a network involves many transient copies > > being made. However, I think that legally only the sender tends to be > > held responsible for distributing or cop

Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-06-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > In reality every transfer over a network involves many transient copies > being made. However, I think that legally only the sender tends to be > held responsible for distributing or copying. It was sent to me by TI with the express intention of includi

Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 10:29 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > This firmware has a very problematic licence. It actually forbids > > anyone to download the firmware without agreeing to the licence. We > > have no way to ask users whether they agree to

Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-06-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This firmware has a very problematic licence. It actually forbids > anyone to download the firmware without agreeing to the licence. We > have no way to ask users whether they agree to this before even > downloading the package. "Do not download this

Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-06-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 11:20 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > Package: firmware-nonfree > Version: 0.30 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > Please consider adding a package for ti-connectivity (which can be found > in the linux-firmware.git). > > The firmware is needed for TI's WLAN module, which i

Bug#628676: firmware-nonfree: add ti-connectivity firmware

2011-05-31 Thread Sebastian Reichel
Package: firmware-nonfree Version: 0.30 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please consider adding a package for ti-connectivity (which can be found in the linux-firmware.git). The firmware is needed for TI's WLAN module, which is mainly used on mobile platforms (e.g. pandaboard, nokia n900). -- Sebastian