On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008 02:25:11 Christian wrote:
Hi,
built a kernel module for: Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux device driver for use with Broadcom's
- BCM4311
- BCM4312
- BCM4321
- and BCM4322 based hardware.
tested on 11.1 and works as expected.
but I still have some questions:
- Is it allowed to build non GPL'd RPM's , or have I to remove it ?
means non-GPL also closed source ?
In that case, yes it is forbidden. There are two exceptions:
- firmware binaries are allowed. - You may get it as official supported NonFree package. Please make a request via bugzilla for for this. However, if it is legal wise incompatible with the kernel (GPL) code, I doubt that it will get accepted.
- If it is allowed, is there a way to force user to accept license,
before installing the package ? license is telling something about non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license
Yes, but only via creating a product media. So it takes some more effort.
Module can be found there:
home:computersalat:KMP
Kind regards Chris