On Monday 12 July 2010 20:52:11 Greg Freemyer 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.
thanks,
From the 'Official' readme.txt at Broadcom: "Broadcom Linux hybrid wireless driver DISCLAIMER ---------- This is an Official Release of Broadcom's hybrid Linux driver for use with Broadcom based hardware. WHERE TO GET THE RELEASE ------------------------ http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php -snip- PRECOMPILED DRIVER ------------------- 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." Why make the use of suse any harder than it already is? Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org