Hans de Goede wrote on 15.09.2010 08:31: > On 09/14/2010 01:31 PM, 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. > > Hmm, now that they are trying to be opensource friendly, can't we get them > to license the old firmware under the same license as the new one? It would > be great to be able to ship the old firmware and haver older broadcom cards > work out of the box. > > David do you have a contact inside Broadcom to talk to about this, and could > you ask? Just FYI, a question like that was already raised in public a few days ago, but remains unanswered as of now afaics: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.driver-project.devel/8460/focus=55447 CU knurd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
