On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:37:50 +0100, matthieu castet wrote > Hi Remi, > > Remi Collet wrote: > > I know the driver is GPL, but what about the firmware ? > The ueagle-atm driver is under a dual GPL/BSD licence.
right, you can distribute it as GPL only if you prefer. take care, not everything in the svn repository is dual GPL/BSD http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/ueagleatm/ > The licence for both firmwares (usb and dsp) is unknown. We tried to > ask ADi to put a licence, but we failed ;). The only answer we got is only the initial attempt at answering, it has not yet been confirmed by ADI's legal department : quoted from https://mail.gna.org/public/eagleusb-dev/2004-11/msg00172.html "Last week, I talked to different parties at ADI regarding the licensing of Layer 1 ( DSP ) and USB firmware source codes. ADI is not providing source code for the firmware :-( The binary files will be distributed freely to end users ( Is public domain licensing good for this? )" We repeatedly asked for confirmation, either 2-clause BSD or public domain but never got any answer from entitled people at ADI. > The usb firmware was distributed by ADI as a binary array in a GPL file. we had this discussion in French back in October 2004 https://mail.gna.org/public/eagleusb-dev/2004-10/msg00067.html > > I think the answer is the same for eagle-usb and ueagleatm. > Yes. confirmed. I would be suficient that ADI provides us with the firmware and DSPcode with appropriate licence from an entitled person to do it... which we asked specifically in this thread for example (and others later on) : quoted from https://mail.gna.org/public/eagleusb-dev/2005-04/msg00049.html "We had no answer from you about an entitled person at ADI to validate that current versions of USB firmware and DSPcode can be released under 2-clause BSD (or public domain - if ADI prefers - __for the moment being__ without source code). When can you identify this entitled person at ADI and get him/her to answer us officially ?" @++ Ben'. aka baud123
