From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel also needs convincing on firmware licensing.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:28:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098934090.1607.1.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041028022532.GX26130@boetes.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-28 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-28 2:25 Intel also needs convincing on firmware licensing Han Boetes
2004-10-28 3:28 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-10-28 3:46 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-28 5:50 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 19:00 ` Dax Kelson
2004-10-28 19:10 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-10-28 15:41 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
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