Intel Pro Wireless cards

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 19:58:23 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:50 -0500, Eric Warnke wrote:
> Then I assume it'a an oversight that other closed source firmware ships 
> with Fedora?
> 
> 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.

Dan




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