On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
On 07/12/2010 11:57 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:42:09PM +0700, medwinz wrote:
Why is this package in obs? The license for the wl driver does not allow it to be redistributed, please delete it from OBS before people get in big trouble...
In my mind, even having it on Packman is a violation of the Broadcom license. I think the only legal way to run Broadcom wl is to download the source from Broadcom's site and compile it on your own machine!
That is correct, it can not be in Pacman either.
I'll go poke the OBS maintainers tomorrow to delete these illegal packages from obs.
I am just for the sake of curiosity butting in here, but I do read this in their README file "Some distros (Ubuntu and Fedora at the least) already have a version of this driver in their repositories precompiled, tested and ready to go. You just use the package manager to install the proper package. If its available for your distro, this is usually an easier solution. See the end of this document for further discussion. " and in their LICENSE.txt file they say " 2.1. License Grants. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Broadcom hereby grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license (i) to use and integrate the Software in conjunction with any other software; and (ii) to reproduce and distribute the Software complete, unmodified and only for use with a Broadcom Product. 2.2. Restriction on Modification. If and to the extent that the Software is designed to be compliant with any published communications standard (including, without limitation, DOCSIS, HomePNA, IEEE, and ITU standards), Licensee may not make any modifications to the Software that would cause the Software or the accompanying Broadcom Products to be incompatible with such standard. 2.3. Restriction on Distribution. Licensee shall only distribute the Software (a) under the terms of this Agreement and a copy of this Agreement accompanies such distribution, and (b) agrees to defend and indemnify Broadcom and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Software by the Licensee except as contemplated herein. " Is it because of the clause 2.1 that it is not legal for packman to host this? But Ubuntu and Fedora do indeed have rpm in their repositories as well. If this LICENSE.txt file is included, even so is it not possible to have rpm binaries in packman, for instance? Note: I don't maintain any version of the package in the obs or packman. Thanks. -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org