Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> The nslu2 needs non-free firmware for its ethernet. This is currently distributed in the d-i installation images on slug-firmware.net. The firmware can be downloaded from <http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2100&DwnldID=12954&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng> A change in the license means it's free enough for er, non-free. INTEL(R) SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Copyright (c) 2007, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: o Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. o Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its suppliers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. o No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is permitted. Limited patent license. Intel Corporation grants a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and sell (.Utilize.) this software, but solely to the extent that any such patent is necessary to Utilize the software alone. The patent license shall not apply to any combinations which include this software. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder. DISCLAIMER. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. The firmware is distributed by intel in the form of some C files containing a lot of binary dataa. (Which is why the license refers to "in binary form".) This is compiled into /lib/firmware/NPE-B using IxNpeMicrocode.h and a Makefile, which can be downloaded from the openwrt svn repo at: https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/package/ixp4xx-microcode/ IxNpeMicrocode.h is licensed under the GPL. Which seems problimatic, since it is #included by IxNpeMicrocode.c, which has the above license. Is this license GPL compatible? The prohibition on reverse engineering does not seem GPL compatible. I've mailed Christian Hohnstaedt, author of IxNpeMicrocode.h, to see if I can get that cleared up. -- see shy jo
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