Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-10 Thread Jeff Carr
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:14, Neil Williams wrote: >> * Firmware is: >> * Derived from proprietary unpublished source code, > electrical equipment or hardware tools, not text editors. As such, not > all firmware can be expected to have any source code. In this case, as > we have a decla

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:34:15 + "brian m. carlson" wrote: > * The firmware actually has a separate license that reads as follows: > > * Firmware is: > * Derived from proprietary unpublished source code, OK, I wasn't aware of that. With the clear statement that source code was involved

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 03:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 10, "brian m. carlson" wrote: > > > I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to modify any sort of > > program, firmware or not, using C or assembly rather than editing the > > binary directly. I suspect that this is the case for

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 10, "brian m. carlson" wrote: > I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to modify any sort of > program, firmware or not, using C or assembly rather than editing the > binary directly. I suspect that this is the case for any reasonable > programmer. Thus, we do not have the preferred

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:06:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:41:12 + "brian m. carlson" wrote: [CC'd -legal as well; you probably want to follow up there.] I don't need to be CC'd, thanks. M-F-T set accordingly. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Daniel

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:41:12 + "brian m. carlson" wrote: > [CC'd -legal as well; you probably want to follow up there.] > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Daniel Knabl wrote: > >Seems to me that Broadcom Inc. does really allow Debian to > >re-distribute the included firmware explic

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread brian m. carlson
[CC'd -legal as well; you probably want to follow up there.] On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Daniel Knabl wrote: Seems to me that Broadcom Inc. does really allow Debian to re-distribute the included firmware explicitly. The GPLv2 requires that distributors provide source code in cert

tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Knabl
Seems to me that Broadcom Inc. does really allow Debian to re-distribute the included firmware explicitly. regards Daniel Begin forwarded message(s): Datum: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:02:23 -0700 Von: nic_technology_supp...@broadcom.com An: dan...@tirolinux.net Betreff: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need f