On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:13 PM, John W. Linville <linvi...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:40 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >> > IIRC they require a firmware blob that has a license that we cannot >> > distribute >> > unlike say the Intel firmwares. I could be wrong though. >> >> That's still true of the b43 firmware for older (pre-802.11n) devices, >> but the firmware to go with their new driver is now in >> linux-firmware.git. >> >> Their *original* offering of that new firmware had a stupid licence -- >> you could only distribute it if you promised to indemnify and defend >> Broadcom from all related third-party lawsuits. They fixed that though, >> and I merged it. > > Nevertheless, everyone I know that has reviewed the newly released > driver code is being treated for eye cancer. I wouldn't expect to > see it in F-14.
Thanks for the update. That's what I suspected as it seems to be the norm for vendor code dumps. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
