On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:38:21AM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:45:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > You may redistribute the hardware specific firmware binary file > > > under the following terms: > > > 1. Redistribution of source code (only if applicable), > > > must retain the above copyright notice, this list of > > > conditions and the following disclaimer. > > > 2. Redistribution in binary form must reproduce the above > > > copyright notice, this list of conditions and the > > > following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other > > > materials provided with the distribution. > > > 3. The name of QLogic Corporation may not be used to > > > endorse or promote products derived from this software > > > without specific prior written permission > > > Which unless someone released a heavily modified GPL licence silently in out > > > back, very very far from the GPL itself. > > Yes; this is not GPL, this is a simple BSD license. The BSD license is > > certainly considered free: it grants us all the redistribution and > > modification rights that we require in order for a work to be included in > > main. The only thing it doesn't grant us in this case (which is not a > > license issue, though the license does acknowledge the issue) is source > > redistribution simply because we don't have any source code. > It is not BSD license, it does not grant the right to distribute modified versions. > So even with the source this would still be nonfree. Hrm, true. Thanks for catching me on this; regardless of the source question, then, this particular firmware license isn't free enough for main. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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