W dniu 21 paÅdziernika 2010 17:21 uÅytkownik Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 00:11 +0200, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote: >> W dniu 20 paÅdziernika 2010 23:50 uÅytkownik Henry Ptasinski >> <henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ: >> > Sorry for the delay in responding. ÂWe are exploring what is possible but >> > for the moment the answer is no. At present our focus is on providing the >> > best open source solution we can for 4313, 43224, 43225, 4329 and future >> > chips sets. >> >> Thanks for answer. >> >> Please, can you make totally sure person responsible for this gets it >> totally right? I believe it's very important. >> >> The easiest step for you, which we still would appreciate is really >> trivial one. It's *not* about writing any code, *not* about releasing >> anything new. It's just about releasing in under friendly license. >> This firmware is already available, we have access to it, we use it. >> The problem is that distributions can not ship it. >> >> If you let me use simplification: all we need as first nice step is >> Broadcom to say: "You can use it". > > That's not enough to allow Fedora to ship it. ÂWe'd need a clear license > from Broadcom (ex the existing Intel or Marvell firmware licenses) > before Fedora could feel comfortable about shipping it legally in all > jurisdictions. > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=LICENCE.mwl8k;h=3224e1bbfba8ccd1d980f57eb88378f20bb2d146;hb=HEAD > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=LICENCE.libertas;h=1fd8766c26a170b50605455ae6f54b607baa12cf;hb=HEAD > > There's an existing Broadcom license in linux-firmware.git, and it *may* > be OK, but it's really, really long and given that other major companies > adopted the "shorter is better" approach, it's hard to believe that all > the existing Broadcom license text is actually needed. Few months later, is there any progress? Can we expect: 1) Easier licensing of currently provided firmware (see Fedore case) 2) Firmware for LP-PHY devices ? -- RafaÅ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
