>>> It might be legally OK for Fedora, but it is not free software. >>> I think you should not distribute or even recommend it. >> >> That might well be the case but it is also the case for just about all >> wireless drivers including the one used in the XO. > > I didn't know the XO required non-free drivers. Where can I find more > details on this?
It requires a firmware to be loaded, which you can get from the link below. The license is listed as "Redistributable, no modification permitted". So I don't see that its any worse than the intel, or a number of other wifi devices. Thinking back I did know about the ath5k and ath9k and the broadcom but in all of those cases its only been in very recent times that has become the case, and the broadcom firmware still only works on a very narrow range of those devices (eg it doesn't work with Dell's Education Netbook. Peter http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/ _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
