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Bug#628676: ti-connectivity linux firmware license



Hello,

I would like to see the ti-connectivity firmware [0] added to
Debian's firmware-nonfree package, but the license does not
allow this. You can find the discussion under [1].

The problem is, that the firmware's license [2] states, that one may
only download the firmware after accepting the license. This
requires reading/accepting the license _before_ downloading the
package, which is currently not possible in Debian.

Please note, that this is also not supported by the Ubuntu packages
from your team, which are available under [3], [4].

Can you please consider changing the license? You can use [5], [6],
[7] as examples licenses from other wireless lan firmwares (all of
them allow redistribution).

[0] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=ti-connectivity
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628676
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=LICENCE.ti-connectivity
[3] https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/omap-trunk/+files/tiwlan-wl1271-firmware_0.24.10-0ubuntu1_all.deb
[4] https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/omap-trunk/+files/tiwlan-wl1283-firmware_0.24.8.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb
[5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=LICENCE.iwlwifi_firmware
[6] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=LICENCE.atheros_firmware
[7] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt

-- Sebastian

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