On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 23:37 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > - net-wireless/zd1201-firmware: No license in tarball or on homepage.
Ubuntu distributes it in their linux-firmware package with the following LICENCE.zd1201 file: The firmware was originally distributed by Zydas in their original driver package. (You can still find it at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/ ) This package was distributed under both the GPL and MPL. The firmware was in it in the form of a large array in a header file. More precisely, if you download the old Zydas driver source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-lc100020/files/%28OLD%29%20wlan-ng%20based%20driver/ the license terms are The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Public License version 2 (the "GPL"), in which case the provisions of the GPL are applicable instead of the above. If you wish to allow the use of your version of this file only under the terms of the GPL and not to allow others to use your version of this file under the MPL, indicate your decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice and other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under either the MPL or the GPL. tl;dr: LICENSE="|| ( MPL-1.1 GPL-2 )" -Alexandre.
