dib0700 firmware licensing

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Devin Heitmueller
<dheitmueller at kernellabs.com> wrote:
> A few weeks ago, various DVB firmware blobs got moved into
> linux-firmware-nonfree.  One of these was the firmware for the DibCom
> dib0700.
>
> We worked with DibCom to get them to clarify their licensing for the
> dib0700 1.20 firmware, and it can now be freely redistributed.
>
> The license terms can be found here:
>
> http://www.kernellabs.com/firmware/dib0700/README.dib0700
>
> We will be working to get this into dwm2's upstream linux-firmware
> tree, but given Karmic's schedule it would be worthwhile if we could
> get this moved out of linux-firmware-nonfree and back into
> linux-firmware before the release.
>
> Without this change, users will see a regression when they upgrade to
> Karmic and don't know that they need to install the new
> linux-firmware-nonfree package.
>
> A launchpad ticket has been opened for this issue:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/446454
>
> Is there any chance we can get this moved back in time for Karmic so
> that users don't see a regression in functionality?  I would have
> gotten this straightened out sooner but was unaware of Ubuntu's
> intentions to move this stuff so late in the release cycle.
>
> Devin
>
> --
> Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
> http://www.kernellabs.com
>

Anyone?

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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com