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Re: fujitsu-siemens primergy rx300 s2



on Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:01:06 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Do they provide a driver that works without a firmware file?  Do they
> include sources to any firmware files required?  If not they can call it
> GPL all they want, but it still won't be GPL.  They wouldn't be the only
> company to make that mistake (For example Sangoma's wanpipe drivers
> claim to be GPL but have vinary only modules and firmware files in
> them).
> 
> Len Sorensen
> 

Ah indeed, you do have a point there. I looked at the driver's source, and 
much of it is in fact binary code transcribed into hex and put into *.h files.
Rather silly of them, isn't it.



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