WLAN doesn't work

Andreas Hauser andy at splashground.de
Thu Apr 13 11:23:28 PDT 2006


joerg wrote @ Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:01:05 +0200:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:50:09AM +0200, Andreas Hauser wrote:
> > joerg wrote @ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:35:54 +0200:
> > > You have to get the firmware manually, either from
> > > http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/iwifw/ or by building the package
> > > manually. I'm not allowed to redistribute binary packages due to Intel's
> > > broken license.
> > 
> > I still don't see how one can interpret the license as such.
> > Other OpenSource vendors don't have such problems either.
> 
> I can't ensure that the recipient agrees to the license conditions and
> therefore I can't redistribute the package. I don't qualify myself as
> end-user vendor, which would make some restrictions less critical.

Of course you are an end-user vendor. Why wouldn't you be one?
If you want, we can put the primary mirror on ftp.fortunaty.net,
so that noone can sue you.

-- 
Andy





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