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Bug#517627: Alteon NIC firmware



On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:53 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Jamie,
> > 
> > You appear to be hosting the Alteon NIC firmware source and tools at
> > <http://alteon.shareable.org/>, but links to those subdirectories yield
> > 'Forbidden' error pages.
> > 
> > Is there a reason why these are not available, or is this accidental?
> 
> A configuration accident as you correctly guessed.
> 
> Indexing was turned off.  They are all readable now.

Thank you.

[...]
> I'm not sure if the license would satisfy DFSG.  It's pretty open as
> these things go.
[...]

I can't see any licence text within the source tarball.  Do you mean
this text:

> "Look at the source files yourself to
> understand any licensing restrictions on their use.  Alteon's license
> may be summarised like this: you may share and develop the firmware,
> but it is only for use with Alteon NIC products."

?

Where is the full version of the licence text that you are summarising?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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