Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262731AbUJ1D2Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:28:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262738AbUJ1D2Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:28:16 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:57224 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262731AbUJ1D2O (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:28:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Intel also needs convincing on firmware licensing. From: Lee Revell To: Han Boetes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20041028022532.GX26130@boetes.org> References: <20041028022532.GX26130@boetes.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:28:09 -0400 Message-Id: <1098934090.1607.1.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 04:25 +0200, Han Boetes wrote: > The people from the OpenBSD project are currently lobbying to get the > firmware for Intel wireless chipsets under a license suitable for Open > Source. > > Since this will not only benefit BSD but also the Linux Project (and > even Intel) I would like to mention the URL here for people who want to > help writing to Intel. It appears that they already let you (re)distribute the firmware as a binary blob. Since this is not code that runs on your computer, what is the problem? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/