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Subject: Re: [9front] distproto: include the files in /lib/firmware/*
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the only downside i see is the purity of our distro...
right now it contains just stuff that can be generated from the
source, and maybe some fonts or a few small icons/graphics are the
only binary content

On 3/8/21, kemal <kemali13@protonmail.com> wrote:
>> > I don't think we're going to start redistributing Intel's
>> > firmware, because legal reasons:
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freely_redistributable_software
>> > (I'm not a lawyer, it'd be nice to be wrong on this)
>>
>> I have checked the firmware license now. Redistribution seems to
>> be permitted without tampering. In addition, patent license
>> actually covers Plan 9. Leaving a copy below.
>
> Would like to add this, Ralink seems to use the same license,
> just all mentions of "Intel Corporation" is replaced with
> "Ralink Technology Corporation".
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/LICENCE.ralink-firmware.txt
>
> (i am also not a lawyer of course)
>
>