[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: ipw2100/2200 firmware license question]]

[Andrzej Zawadzki]

That's my correspondence with James Ketrenos main developer of ipw2200 
driver.
Looks good :-)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ipw2100/2200 firmware license question]
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:57:25 -0500
From: James Ketrenos <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
To: Andrzej Zawadzki <zawadaa at wp.pl>
References: <41630441.4000300 at wp.pl> <416307D9.7040403 at linux.intel.com> 
<4163157B.1030608 at wp.pl>

Andrzej Zawadzki wrote:
> James Ketrenos wrote:
> 
>> Andrzej Zawadzki wrote:
>>
>>> Hello James!
>>> First, thank You for a great job!
>>> Second, I have a question about firmware:
>>> Can distros, like non profit distro http://www.pld-linux.org/ 
>>> include firmware into rpms?
>>
>> Yes.  As Axel stated below, placing the message in the RPM 
>> description, and a copy of the LICENSE in the same location as the 
>> firmware is
> 
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hm can I place LICENSE in /usr/share/doc/ipw2200-firmware/ ?
> Most licenses are there.

It really needs to be in the same location as the firmware so that users 
are
more likely than not to find the license in the event they look for the 
specific
.fw files.  You can rename the LICENSE to ipw2200-LICENSE if there is a
namespace collision in the firmware directory.

James

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Andrzej Zawadzki