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hey all, |
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i'm desperately trying to get a snapshot or two of the prism54 driver |
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into portage, but there's some legal... "hangups" with regards to the |
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firmware image. The problem is the terms of the firmware images' |
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redistrubtion is completely in the air. From |
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http://prism54.org/firmware/ : |
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<snip> |
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Firmware versions, Re-distribution license, Usage license, and "open |
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source" firmware |
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There are only a few firmware files out there. In this page we list a |
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collection of them by version number. We do not yet have a |
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re-distribution license for them by Intersil (or globalspanvirata or |
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Conexant) but since Intersil wrote the original GPL driver and then |
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supported the Open Source community in mantaining it, we figure it's |
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only fair we're allowed to redistribute them here. Our official |
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permission is pending. We do not have a "usage" license but should we |
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get one, I'm pretty sure it'll just say you can use the firmware in |
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whatever way you want except reverse-engineering. |
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</snip> |
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So... for now i'm adding a RESTRICT="nomirror" and adding it to portage, |
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and i've sent an email to prism54-devel asking for clarification. Do people |
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think we should force the user to download the firmware by hand, or is |
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the nomirror enough? |
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-pete |
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Peter Johanson |
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<latexer@g.o> |
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