Intel Pro Wireless cards

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Tue Mar 1 23:57:32 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:58 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

>> The bluez-bluefw module ships with a GLP license even though the 
>> firmware that is included appears ( as in I'm email broadcom right now ) 
>> to be free as in beer not free as in speech.  Without the source code 
>> it's only Free and not FOSS.
>> 
>> If they can ship free-redistibutution firmware for the broadcom why not 
>> intel's free-redistribution license?
>
>That would appear to be an oversight.  File a bug against the package.

Which is the oversight.  That the bluez-bluefw module is shipped, or
that the intel centrino stuff isn't?


Rodd




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