On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800,
Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> That's not what I said. That page is Broadcom distributing
> the firmware. They don't let other people do it (at least
> not without signing a contract).
Not so; I have read their licence.txt -- have you? The
licence.txt is in simple English (not leaglease) -- it allows
distribution of the firmware.
I went back and looked and it seems that the b43 and brcm80211 drivers
use different firmware. The new firmware is redistributable and the old
firmware isn't. A lwn article from last Spetmber goes over this.
http://lwn.net/Articles/406491/