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From: kemal <kemali13@protonmail.com>
To: "9front@9front.org" <9front@9front.org>
Subject: Re: [9front] distproto: include the files in /lib/firmware/*
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:59:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MB-zI_cJeOPKs9n9C9FWmjavskhdM41K5USgyENK-XfHeI4_S2AWAs7SDep0ut_lc4PN-TwBeumy20f0PldRZwRzbpcduemUxkuZay8LL_g=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Gao7hDrtrEXeMKTDvbNoi7sHH4n1q-tVqhd4mwdWkU7k5YoZvFS46vt1WkCX7W8x8s8SjStVBoH-rGf7vDTgh6wu7W9p3qeusMTP1O8DWAs=@protonmail.com>

> > 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)


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-08 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-07 17:02 kemal
2021-03-07 17:20 ` ori
2021-03-07 17:36   ` kemal
2021-03-07 18:20     ` ori
2021-03-07 18:58       ` kemal
2021-03-07 19:11       ` kemal
2021-03-08 10:59         ` kemal [this message]
2021-03-08 11:10           ` hiro
2021-03-08 11:58             ` sirjofri
2021-03-08 12:15               ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-03-08 12:34                 ` Julien Blanchard
2021-03-08 12:44                 ` kemal
2021-03-08 12:55                   ` hiro
2021-03-08 13:18                     ` kemal
2021-03-08 13:28                       ` hiro
2021-03-08 13:58                         ` kemal
2021-03-08 14:03                           ` hiro
2021-03-08 15:32                     ` Stanley Lieber
2021-03-08 16:07                   ` cinap_lenrek
2021-03-08 17:58                     ` kemal
2021-03-08 15:29               ` Stanley Lieber

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