On Mon, Feb 06, 2006, Anssi Hannula wrote: > matthieu castet wrote: > > I wonder if all firmware have a licence that allow to distribute them on > > an external server. > > Maybe not, but they have been provided in linuxtv.org on the "until > someone complains" (...why vendor would file a complaint on good > availability of firmware for linux?) basis. "someone complains" nowadays usually comes with a huge fee for some lawyer. Back in the days where Convergence hosted the server it didn't matter much, but ever since the server went private I had a bad feeling about this. > All the files except dvb-fe-sp8870.fw and dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw are already > provided in the download section or in the CVS. I'm just asking if they > could all be placed in a same place. It would be cool if someone would offer some download space on a different server. I'd like to get rid of firmware binaries on linuxtv.org altogether (except when we get a written permission from the copyright holders to redistribute the files.) Otherwise get_dvb_firmware is the way to go: Grab firmwares from the hardware vendor's download sites. Johannes _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
