Differences between revisions 13 and 14
Revision 13 as of 2005-04-05 12:23:42
Size: 6158
Editor: anonymous
Comment:
Revision 14 as of 2005-04-05 14:41:13
Size: 6714
Editor: anonymous
Comment:
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 10: Line 10:
 svenl, are you contacting broadcom?  Before contacting broadcom, i went to the driver download web page :
Line 12: Line 12:
{{{
   http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Linux
}}}
 {{{
 which says :
}}}
{{{
   The Broadcom Linux Ethernet drivers are licensed under the GNU GPL.
   The full text of the license is available in the driver archive.
    
 downloading the driver now, but don't know what their relationship to the
 mainline kernel version is.
}}}
{{{
 Also, Jeff Garzik was the one doing the initial checkin, but didn't respond to
 a direct question asking where the firmware came from, and under which licence.
}}}

tg3:

 * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
 * Copyright (C) 2001 Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
 * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc.
 * Firmware is:
 *      Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation.
  •  Before contacting broadcom, i went to the driver download web page :

   http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Linux
  •  which says :

   The Broadcom Linux Ethernet drivers are licensed under the GNU GPL.
   The full text of the license is available in the driver archive.
    
 downloading the driver now, but don't know what their relationship to the
 mainline kernel version is.

 Also, Jeff Garzik was the one doing the initial checkin, but didn't respond to
 a direct question asking where the firmware came from, and under which licence.

acenic:

 * Copyright 1998-2002 by Jes Sorensen, <jes@trained-monkey.org>.
 ''''' Generated by genfw.c '''''
 ACENIC DRIVER
 P:      Jes Sorensen
 M:      jes@trained-monkey.org
 L:      linux-acenic@sunsite.dk
 S:      Maintained

 according to freebsd's if_ti.c:
 * Alteon Networks Tigon PCI gigabit ethernet driver for ["FreeBSD"].
 * Manuals, sample driver and firmware source kits are available
 * from http://www.alteon.com/support/openkits.
 * Written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
 * The firmware for the Tigon 1 and 2 ["NICs"] is compiled directly into
 * this driver by #including it as a C header file. This bloats the
 * driver somewhat, but it's the easiest method considering that the
 * driver code and firmware code need to be kept in sync. The source
 * for the firmware is not provided with the ["FreeBSD"] distribution since
 * compiling it requires a GNU toolchain targeted for mips-sgi-irix5.3.

 wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu - bounced
 wpaul@["FreeBSD"].org - awaiting response (apr 5)
 william.paul@windriver.com - awaiting response (apr 5)

 acenic firmware source is here:
 http://alteon.shareable.org/
 Quoth the page: "Look at the source files yourself to understand any
 licensing restrictions on their use.  Alteon's license may be summarised
 like this: you may share and develop the firmware, but it is only for use
 with Alteon NIC products."

 More useful acenic info:
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html
 acenic firmware 'license': http://web.archive.org/web/20000711071330/sanjose.alteon.com/license-agree.shtml
 Definitely not DFSG-free, but it appears distributable at least.. comments?

dgrs:

 *      Author: Rick Richardson, rick@remotepoint.com
 *      Derived from the ["SVR4"].2 (UnixWare) driver for the same card.
 *      Copyright 1995-1996 Digi International Inc.
 *      For information on purchasing a RightSwitch SE-4 or SE-6
 *      board, please contact Digi's sales department at 1-612-912-3444
 *      or 1-800-DIGIBRD.  Outside the U.S., please check our Web page
 *      at http://www.dgii.com for sales offices worldwide.
 DIGI RIGHTSWITCH NETWORK DRIVER
 P:      Rick Richardson
 L:      linux-net@vger.kernel.org
 W:      http://www.digi.com
 S:      Orphaned

 rick@remotepoint.com - bounced
 rickr@mn.rr.com - response received (apr 5); firmware license is proprietary.
 awaiting specific license redistribution rights.

smctr:

 * The firmware this driver downloads into the tokenring card is a
 * separate program and is not GPL'd source code, even though the Linux
 * side driver and the routine that loads this data into the card are.
 *
 * This firmware is licensed to you strictly for use in conjunction
 * with the use of SMC TokenRing adapters. There is no waranty
 * expressed or implied about its fitness for any purpose.
 *  - This is an 8K binary image. (MCT.BIN v6.3C1 03/01/95)
 *  - Jay Schulist <jschlst@samba.org>

 Is this licensing ok?

qla2xxx:

 * Copyright (C) 2003 Christoph Hellwig.
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2004 ["QLogic"] Corporation
 * (www.qlogic.com)
 QLOGIC ["QLA2XXX"] FC-SCSI DRIVER
 P:      Andrew Vasquez
 M:      andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com 
 L:      linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 S:      Supported

 freebsd has firmware for qla separated out and marked under BSD license; is
 this valid?  can we just say the firmware blobs are BSD licensed?
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ispfw/

dabusb:

 *      Copyright (C) 1999  Deti Fliegl (deti@fliegl.de)
 deti@fliegl.de - awaiting response (apr 4)

emi62:

 * Copyright (C) 2002
 *      Tapio Laxstr\uffffm (tapio.laxstrom@iptime.fi)
 * This file is generated from three different files, provided by Emagic.
  •  In 2.4, emi62_fw.h contained the following (which was apparently stripped
     out before 2.6, for some reason?):
     * This firmware is for the Emagic EMI 2||6 Audio Interface
     *
     * The firmware contained herein is Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Emagic
     * as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted
     * or public access to this firmware which is a trade secret of Emagic,
     * and which may not be reproduced, used, sold or transferred to
     * any third party without Emagic's written consent. All Rights Reserved.
     *
     * This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with the
     * Emagic EMI 2||6 Audio Interface. Distribution and/or Modification of
     * any driver which includes this firmware, in whole or in part,
     * requires the inclusion of this statement.
     wth?

keyspan:

  (C) Copyright (C) 2000-2001   Hugh Blemings <hugh@blemings.org>
  (C) Copyright (C) 2002        Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  See http://misc.nu/hugh/keyspan.html for more information.

        The firmware contained herein as keyspan_*.h is

                Copyright (C) 1999-2001
                Keyspan, A division of InnoSys Incorporated ("Keyspan")

        as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted or
        public access to the source code from which this firmware image is
        derived.  Except as noted below this firmware image may not be
        reproduced, used, sold or transferred to any third party without
        Keyspan's prior written consent.  All Rights Reserved.

        Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware
        image as part of a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel
        in text or binary form as required.

        This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with
        Keyspan hardware.  Distribution and/or Modification of the
        keyspan.c driver which includes this firmware, in whole or in
        part, requires the inclusion of this statement."