[SoaS] rt2x00 firmware

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Thu Jan 7 00:14:55 EST 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 04:00 +0100, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote:
> > Click through the firmware link to view the license. The terms
> > appear to satisfy the legal requirements imposed by the Fedora
>> guidelines
> 
> It might be legally OK for Fedora, but it is not free software.
> I think you should not distribute or even recommend it.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

Looking for alternatives, would anyone like to contact Ralink and ask
politely if they'd be willing to release the firmware source code under
a free license?

Or, is anyone working on a complete rewrite? The blob in question is
just 4KB long.

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