Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Fwd: consider a b43-firmware package like this?
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 13:56 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
I sent this to the rpmfusion-developers list yesterday. It occurred
to me that it might be worth sending here too...
So, is there any chance that the wording below justifies or leads to
approval of a b43-firwmare package in the official Fedora repository?
If so, then I will cease my efforts to get such a package into RPM
Fusion. It certainly would be better for our users to have these
packages in the main repository rather than in a 3rd party one.
Yep. I think it does. Linksys is clearly distributing those tarballs
under the terms of the GPL, which means that we can freely redistribute
them under that license. Also, the drivers themselves in that tarball
are marked as License=GPL (assuming I'm looking at the correct
subfiles):
[spot@localhost linux]$ strings bcm57xx.o |grep license
license=GPL
The best part is that I know that RH Legal has signed off on this, so
we're good to go ahead and do it.
But, please don't say that we're doing this with Broadcom's permission,
because while that may be implicitly correct, it is not explicitly true.
~spot