On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:21:39AM +0000, Bill Paul wrote: [...] > First, look here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/KLSI > > These are all of the files that I originally received from Kawasaki LSI > when I first contacted them about writing a driver, as I originally > received them. This includes the file containing the firmwre image. I > was never given any firmware source. I didn't expect you would have been. But a BSD-licenced copy of the firmware binary is clearly redistributable. > You will note that there are no > copyright headers at all, and when I spoke to the Kawasaki representative > on the phone the subject of copyright on the firmware image never came up. > They were just happy to have a driver for FreeBSD, and never made a fuss > over it. [...] Then I think it's safe to assume that the firmware is (c) Kawasaki LSI and that they were happy to licence it under a BSD licence as you have attached. Thanks for the information. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp
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