[CS-FSLUG] Licenses on wireless drivers/firmware

[Frank Bax]

At 01:20 PM 10/28/04, Frank Bax wrote:
>OpenBSD developers are trying to get licensing changed on firmware 
>binaries for wireless devices.

Activism pays off for OpenBSD

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html?oneclick=true

Register site, sorry.

Hardware vendors have responded positively to activism on the part of 
members of the OpenBSD community and developers and either allowed 
redistribution of specific firmware or else begun a dialogue with 
developers, the head honcho of the OpenBSD project says.

Theo de Raadt said Atmel and Zydas were to be congratulated for making 
their firmware files re-distributable. "Conexant and Intel have been open 
to dialogue for which we are grateful," he added.

However, Texas Instruments had not responded and de Raadt said the activism 
would continue.