On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800, Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > That's not what I said. That page is Broadcom distributing > > the firmware. They don't let other people do it (at least > > not without signing a contract). > > Not so; I have read their licence.txt -- have you? The > licence.txt is in simple English (not leaglease) -- it allows > distribution of the firmware. I went back and looked and it seems that the b43 and brcm80211 drivers use different firmware. The new firmware is redistributable and the old firmware isn't. A lwn article from last Spetmber goes over this. http://lwn.net/Articles/406491/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
