[ATrpms-users] Firmware packages for Intel & redistribution (was: 3945 how too (fc6)?)

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:28:19AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Troy Engel wrote:
> >>I don't know about ipw3495, but with ipw2200 you can't get the firmware 
> >>in an RPM package, you have to agree to the license and download it from 
> >
> >Incorrect. ATrpms offers a ready-to-use ipw2200 firmware RPM, I use it 
> >myself on my Thinkpad at home.
> 
> Did you agree to the license conditions at 
> [http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7]? If not, then ATrpms 
> is violating the firmware license.

I was pointed to ATrpms potentially violating the law :)

In fact when I read the license back then, while it does read that it
is OK to do so for a non-lawyer, I wanted to make sure and contacted
Intel. Some while later I received some legal help by Intel in
packaging it in a license compatible form and an official confirmation
that the packages were clean to redistribute.

So no, ATrpms is not violating the firmware license and the packages
have propagated to most rpm based distributions by now.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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