26 Feb
2011
26 Feb
'11
1:14 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800, Suresh Govindachar sgovindachar@yahoo.com wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
That's not what I said. That page is Broadcom distributing the firmware. They don't let other people do it (at least not without signing a contract).
Not so; I have read their licence.txt -- have you? The licence.txt is in simple English (not leaglease) -- it allows distribution of the firmware.
I went back and looked and it seems that the b43 and brcm80211 drivers use different firmware. The new firmware is redistributable and the old firmware isn't. A lwn article from last Spetmber goes over this. http://lwn.net/Articles/406491/