Bug#449235: Intel wireless firmware in firmware-nonfree

[Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se>]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> 
> | Your rights to redistribute the Software shall be contingent upon your
> | installation of this Agreement in its entirety in the same directory as
> | the Software.
> 
> This was interpreted by at least one person that the license needs to
> pushed in the same directory on the mirror than the package.

But the FAQ says:

"The package must install the LICENSE file in the same location on the system
that the firmware files are installed."

I.e., /lib/firmware. If that's not convincing, perhaps we should ask Intel for a
clarification? I doubt that other distributions place the license file in their
mirror directories.

>>> [1] http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware_faq.php
>> Looks perfectly fine for nonfree to me.
> 
> This is not the license. This is the FAQ to the license. For the license
> see [1].

That's true. Yet, the FAQ can be useful for clarifying the license's meaning and
upstream's intentions with it.

-- 
Pelle