From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Dan Williams" <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>,
"Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom.com>,
"Nohee Ko" <noheek@broadcom.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Request for free-distributable Broadcom's (G|LP)-PHY firmware
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:09:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D628E37.7040503@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110221095957.GA4568@redhat.com>
On 02/21/2011 03:59 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:21:29PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 02/18/2011 03:24 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>>> 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
>>> ?
>>
>> I think we can forget this whole business. It seems that Broadcom is
>> content with their business model, even though knowledgeable Linux
>> users are avoiding their products like the plague.
>
> Broadcom will not release old firmware with redistributable license,
> because of legal concerns, which are ridiculous for everyone except
> them.
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-September/142893.html
Did I tell you that I hate lawyers?
Larry
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Dan Williams" <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>,
"Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom.com>,
"Nohee Ko" <noheek@broadcom.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Request for free-distributable Broadcom's (G|LP)-PHY firmware
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:09:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D628E37.7040503@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110221095957.GA4568@redhat.com>
On 02/21/2011 03:59 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:21:29PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 02/18/2011 03:24 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> 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
>>> ?
>>
>> I think we can forget this whole business. It seems that Broadcom is
>> content with their business model, even though knowledgeable Linux
>> users are avoiding their products like the plague.
>
> Broadcom will not release old firmware with redistributable license,
> because of legal concerns, which are ridiculous for everyone except
> them.
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-September/142893.html
Did I tell you that I hate lawyers?
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 22:07 Request for free-distributable Broadcom's (G|LP)-PHY firmware Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-08 22:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-19 0:02 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-19 0:02 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-19 0:30 ` Greg KH
2010-10-20 21:50 ` Henry Ptasinski
2010-10-20 22:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-20 22:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-20 22:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-20 22:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-21 15:21 ` Dan Williams
2011-02-18 21:24 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-02-18 21:24 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-02-18 22:21 ` Larry Finger
2011-02-18 22:21 ` Larry Finger
2011-02-21 9:59 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-02-21 14:23 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-02-21 14:23 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-02-21 14:49 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-02-21 14:49 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-02-21 19:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-02-21 19:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-02-21 16:09 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-02-21 16:09 ` Larry Finger
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