Bug#449235: Intel wireless firmware in firmware-nonfree
Hi,
Bastian Blank wrote:
>> 2.) In addition to the firmware for the ipw2200 mentioned by the original
>> submitter, there is also the other legacy ipw2100
>> http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
>> (I didn't look at the license though)
>
> We decided that we can't ship it with this license in non-free.
Why is that? Apparently Ubuntu can ship it (IIRC). Also, there is a faq page[1]
indicating that it is possible to redistribute the firmware.
But if you have already decided that the firmware can't be packaged, I guess
this bug should be closed or marked wontfix.
[1] http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware_faq.php
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Pelle
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