Hi Franklin, thanks a lot for your work on these patches! Very much appreciated! On Saturday 01 November 2008 22:33, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I think it would be nice to have those firmware in Lenny. Even though > it's very late in the release cycle, I assume the risk is add them is > rather low since: > 1. The firmware haven't changed for ages. > 2. The packages will be in non-free (i.e not supported by Debian). > > Is there anything I could do to help? > I assume I should open 2 bugs for the patches, right ? Yes, please do. Also please make the bugs blocked by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449235 - which I think is invalid and about which I'm in communication with intel to get the clarification about this stupid refusal of the firmware-nonfree maintainers to include those firmwares. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449235#33 claims that someone read the licence as undistributable in non-free because the licence could mean that the licence needs to be available _in_the_download_directory_next_to_the_firmware. The way I read the licence is that its fine if the licence is part inside the package and upon _installation_ the licence is placed in the same directory as the firmware file. (And in /usr/share/doc/ipw2x00-fireware _and_ displayed to the user at installation time and asked for acception.)) regards, Holger
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