Re: Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-02 Thread bofh
On 10/2/06, Greg Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/1/06, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know - I nmaped a slingbox, and to my surprise, it returned an > > OpenBSD 3.7(or something) > > Is that a misidentification or does anyone know if they are running > OpenBSD? We have some Slin

Re: Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-02 Thread Greg Thomas
On 10/1/06, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/1/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What if some vendor decides that they like OpenBSD so much that they > want to turn it (or a part of it) into a commercial product, perhaps > for a specialized market segment we do not reach? So

Re: Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-01 Thread bofh
On 10/1/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What if some vendor decides that they like OpenBSD so much that they > want to turn it (or a part of it) into a commercial product, perhaps > for a specialized market segment we do not reach? So they would take > the OpenBSD source tree and

Re: Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-01 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:06:46PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > But this does bring up the side question: Is all of Red Hat > "Enterprise Linux" licensed under the licenses stated at > http://opensource.org/licenses, [...] Obviously not---they include the IPW firmware.

Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
Intel has a seriously restrictive license on the firmware of their two older chipsets. It seems Intel didn't design these chipsets but purchased them but failed to buy all the rights, and now feels compelled to restrict us. That license can be found at http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firm