[Bug 258681] Review Request: bluez-firmware - Bluetooth firmware distributed by the BlueZ project

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Summary: Review Request: bluez-firmware -  Bluetooth firmware distributed by the BlueZ project


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258681





------- Additional Comments From wwoods at redhat.com  2008-04-01 12:33 EST -------
Well, that license was added at Mark Webbink's suggestion; since it's not part
of the upstream source I can just drop it.

The best thing would be a statement from Broadcom Legal saying that
redistribution of their firmware is explicitly permitted. But I haven't been
able to get a response from them.

The debian copyright info file (see comment #1) says:

"The BlueZ project has permission from Broadcom Corporation to distribute this
firmware in conjunction with the BlueZ GPLd tools, available in Debian as
bluez-utils, as long as the notice contained in
/usr/share/doc/bluez-firmware/BCM-LEGAL.txt accompanies the firmware."

So - maybe these files are freely redisitributable *if* we put them in the
bluez-utils package. Or maybe we're OK as long as we're also shipping bluez-utils. 

Guess I'll try emailing broadcom again.

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