SuperDindon a dit : > > yes i know about this isn't legal ( yet, i hope so ), but if i remove > the precompiled package, then the first interest of my package, its > simplicity, will be partly lost
if it is not legal, you cannot knowingly upload it on debian repository first step first : obtain a decent license to distribute > for now i prefer waiting that Alcatel remind me that it isn't legal so > i'll do remove the package including their firmwares so you'll be back at step 0, your package becomes unusable ? I think that debian uploader will remind it to you before Alcatel... post-sarge it will even be stricter : "binary blob" end up in non-free, the driver in contrib, so chances are that they are not even on shipped CD :'-( > Mmm how to download firmwares without any internet connection? through RTC modem, through a LAN, at an internet cafe (then on usb key, CDROM, floppy disk...). That's the problem of the egg and the chicken ;-) You forgot : without being connected, how to find useful documentation, how to google, how to obtain support on forums or IRC... > Yes their license is is very restrictive and is a real problem to > promote their modems under Linux yep : where the end-user simply expects it to work, even the install is a problem ! Next, comes configuration which can be tricky (and the end-user is not yet connected...). Though, I've got no answer for Alcatel or Thomson either, as I'm nearly convinced it would cost them nothing to provide us with specifications, some distribution rights. Furthermore, I do not see either reasons for having this position, I can't see what they would lose to release freely their firmware (apart avoiding to lose some customers that are fed up with not-immediately-working modems and just buy an ethernet one). So it may be time to convince them that now is perhaps time to examine - once again - the possibility to change license for a free one. @++ Ben'. aka baud123 Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
