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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] libertas-firmware license (wlan chipset for OLPC, GuruPlug)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:27:21
Message-Id: 201010192126.20738.dilfridge@gentoo.org
1 Hi all,
2
3 since this is my first "license addition", I rather err on the side of
4 caution. See the pasted text below, are there any objections against adding it
5 and the corresponding package to the tree?
6
7 Best, Andreas
8
9 PS. The files have been grabbed from the kernel-firmware git repository on
10 kernel.org.
11
12 -------------------------------------------------------
13
14 FIRMWARE LICENSE TERMS
15
16
17 Copyright (c) Marvell International Ltd.
18
19 All rights reserved.
20
21 Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without modification,
22 are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
23
24 * Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice and the following
25 disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
26 distribution.
27
28 * Neither the name of Marvell International Ltd. nor the names of its
29 suppliers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
30 software without specific prior written permission.
31
32 * No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is
33 permitted.
34
35 Limited patent license. Marvell International Ltd. grants a world-wide,
36 royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter owns or
37 controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and sell ("Utilize")
38 this software, but solely to the extent that any such patent is necessary to
39 Utilize the software alone, or in combination with an operating system
40 licensed under an approved Open Source license as listed by the Open Source
41 Initiative at http://opensource.org/licenses. The patent license shall not
42 apply to any other combinations which include this software. No hardware per
43 se is licensed hereunder.
44
45 DISCLAIMER. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
46 CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
47 LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
48 PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR
49 CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
50 EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
51 PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
52 BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
53 IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
54 ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
55 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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62 Andreas K. Huettel
63 Gentoo Linux developer
64 dilfridge@g.o
65 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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