On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:40 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > IIRC they require a firmware blob that has a license that we cannot distribute > > unlike say the Intel firmwares. I could be wrong though. > > That's still true of the b43 firmware for older (pre-802.11n) devices, > but the firmware to go with their new driver is now in > linux-firmware.git. > > Their *original* offering of that new firmware had a stupid licence -- > you could only distribute it if you promised to indemnify and defend > Broadcom from all related third-party lawsuits. They fixed that though, > and I merged it. Nevertheless, everyone I know that has reviewed the newly released driver code is being treated for eye cancer. I wouldn't expect to see it in F-14. John -- John W. Linville The truth will set you free, but first it will linville@xxxxxxxxxx make you miserable. -- James A. Garfield -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
