[CS-FSLUG] wireless NIC - licensing

[Frank Bax]

	http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0411/msg01185.html
Over in the OpenBSD-misc mailing  list, we learned this week that Intel has 
decided against making any changes to the licensing of firmware for 
wireless nic's.  The bsd folks were not asking for access to source 
code.  They were asking for the right to freely redistribute the binary 
code.  As I understand things, without the ability to freely distribute the 
firmware binaries, the firmware is not be bundled with any 
distro.  Installation of firmware requires acceptance of a click-through 
license.
	http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=4
Apparently folks in several Linux camps (SuSE, Mandrake) do not have a 
problem with this license.  I'm no legal person, but this license looks scary!

The license appears to say that if I'm not the "end user", then the first 
part must apply.  You agree to never print "Intel" or any trademark they 
own without their written consent!

If I agreed to that license (I didn't) this email (by discussing it) would 
a violation of it.

Frank