From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Salt Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:57:42 +0000 Subject: Re: a3load.hex Message-Id: <4DBB6A4721%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> List-Id: References: <20051014134617.42227.qmail@web30703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051014134617.42227.qmail@web30703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I demand that Greg KH may or may not have written... > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:14:51AM -0700, william baroniunas wrote: >> I am not actually giving advice, but seeking it. My concern is that there >> are many distributions that include this module, > Which distros are they? >> and unless we get Cypress to rewrite their copyright, that leaves the door >> open for litigation. > They did rewrite it. Have you looked at the version in our cvs tree: > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/linux-hotplug/fxload/a3load.hex?rev=1.1&view=auto > What is wrong with that? "... licence to use or redistribute this firmware image ... in conjunction with devices using a Cypress USB microcontroller". AFAICS, that gives two possibilities: use with appropriate hardware, and redistribution with appropriate hardware. It doesn't appear to cover redistribution without appropriate hardware (for eventual use on appropriate hardware), which is what's required here. I suspect that s/in conjunction/for conjunction/ may be enough to close the door. (Disclaimer: IANAL.) [snip] [don't cc to me] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland | s zap,tartarus,org | RISC OS | Toon Army | @ | We've got Souness, we don't want him Don't rewrite bad code; patch it. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel