[haiku-development] Re: Including WiFi firmwares in Haiku
- From: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:35:33 -0800
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:28:38 -0800, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > - Potential issue:
> > - Though one can read the license in a way, that even distributing the
> > firmware would require the user to consent to it before downloading/buying
> > Haiku.
> > - This is why umccullough started getting in contact with Intel itself to
> > get official distribution permission. No reaction so far.
> > - Nonetheless colin sees Haiku well prepared, for the case Intel declines,
> > because it would be easy to remove the firmware and modify the installer
> > script to download the firmware then.
>
> To clarify, I have not received a response from either of the two
> emails I've sent (one to FreeBSD's vendor-relations group to inquire
> about their agreement with Intel, the other to an individual at Intel
> who was cited by OpenBSD's intel wifi documentation).
>
> I don't currently have the time to track down another individual at
> Intel - but I could perhaps again in the future. If someone else would
> like to pick this up, please feel free.
>
Talk to flz on irc.efnet.net. He intitially instigated the deal with
intel for FreeBSD.
alex
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