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SubjectRe: Intel also needs convincing on firmware licensing.
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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 04:25 +0200, Han Boetes wrote:
> The people from the OpenBSD project are currently lobbying to get the
> firmware for Intel wireless chipsets under a license suitable for Open
> Source.
>
> Since this will not only benefit BSD but also the Linux Project (and
> even Intel) I would like to mention the URL here for people who want to
> help writing to Intel.

It appears that they already let you (re)distribute the firmware as a
binary blob. Since this is not code that runs on your computer, what is
the problem?

Lee

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