Re: broadcom proposed firmware licence, please comment ...
On Sun, 29 May 2005 05:48:55 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
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> Great! This license is totally distributable. I'm not sure, unfortunately,
> what counts as "equivalent" to hexadecimal. I think that's the only problem.
> If it was just "permission to distribute, unmodified, in any form", it would
> be clear.
>
> Before you move the whole driver to non-free, you should know that I have made
> a version of the driver which loads the firmware from files if it is
> available (many tg3 users don't *need* the firmware), and I believe that is
> the one currently in Debian's kernel tree. I have also designed a package
> containing appropriate firmware files for this version of the driver. The
> only reason I have not published the package yet is that it was under this
> legal cloud.
As I remember, upstream (jgarzik/davem) was not overly interested in such
a patch to tg3. Is this still the case, or are they amenable to such
changes? I'd rather not maintain a tg3 patch again, if possible.
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