I had the same confusion as you. The only way I could make sense out of it all 
is that Canonical did not obtain the same (non-transferable) "distributor" 
license as Fedora core (and perhaps Debian), and instead must abide by the 
end-user license license:
http://www.adaptec.com/adapteccom/templates/driverdetail.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fen-us%2fspeed%2fscsi%2flinux%2faic94xx-seq-30-1_tar_gz.htm&NRCACHEHINT=Guest
which would indeed forbid distribution.

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  LICENSE.aic94xx-seq in linux-firmware - is this firmware
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