On Sun, 29 May 2005 05:48:55 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [...] > Great! This license is totally distributable. I'm not sure, unfortunately, > what counts as "equivalent" to hexadecimal. I think that's the only problem. > > If it was just "permission to distribute, unmodified, in any form", it would > be clear. > > Before you move the whole driver to non-free, you should know that I have > made > a version of the driver which loads the firmware from files if it is > available (many tg3 users don't *need* the firmware), and I believe that is > the one currently in Debian's kernel tree. I have also designed a package > containing appropriate firmware files for this version of the driver. The > only reason I have not published the package yet is that it was under this > legal cloud.
As I remember, upstream (jgarzik/davem) was not overly interested in such a patch to tg3. Is this still the case, or are they amenable to such changes? I'd rather not maintain a tg3 patch again, if possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]