On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:11:46 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:01:14 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: > >> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:59:25 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] >> >> The reason for the dual licensing is because they have OEMs that would >> need to re-qualify (that may be the incorrect wording, I forget what >> they said, and it was a phone conversation so it's not in an inbox >> anywhere) the driver if the license changes. That's a pain for >> everyone involved, and would take several months. So, by >> dual-licensing, the OEMs can continue using the driver and firmware >> under the GPL (invalid or not), > > and thus violating QLogic copyright? >
Yep. They have the legal team to defend themselves from lawsuits; we do not. Therefore, we will take the safe route. >> while we (Debian) can choose to use it >> under a BSD-alike license. > > Well, with a BSDish license, we have permission to distribute, yes, so > we can put this package in non-free. > We cannot go beyond that, though: main and contrib are off-limits for a > sourceless package. > > But that is surely clear to you... Yep, they have no intention of making the source available; that was my first suggestion. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
