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Re: Firmware removal progress



On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 00:44:45 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 00:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I'm going to post a series of patches that aim to fix the RC bugs
> > relating to sourceless firmware.
> 
> Unfortunately, a quick search suggests that there is still more left:
> 
> file                               licence       distributable
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> drivers/char/drm/mga_ucode.h       GPLv2         no

 * Copyright 1999 Matrox Graphics Inc.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
 * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
 * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
 * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
 * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
 * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
 * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
 * MATROX GRAPHICS INC., OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
 * DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
 * OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
 * OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

That's not GPLv2, and is distributable.

Cheers,
Julien


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