Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:48:04 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r293009 - head/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn Message-ID: <20160104144804.5dc0a83a@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <201512312231.tBVMVh8K075724@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201512312231.tBVMVh8K075724@repo.freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Author: adrian > Date: Thu Dec 31 22:31:43 2015 > New Revision: 293009 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/293009 > > Log: > [rtwn] add rtwn firmware. When adding proprietary software to the kernel, please make sure that the relevant WITHOUT_SOURCELESS_* variable is respected: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205874 See also: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204748 and (not your department): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204747 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204749 > Added: head/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn/LICENSE > ============================================================================== > --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) > +++ head/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn/LICENSE Thu Dec 31 22:31:43 2015 (r293009) > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ > +Copyright (c) 2010, Realtek Semiconductor Corporation > +All rights reserved. [...] > +Limited patent license. Realtek Semiconductor Corporation grants a world-wide, > +royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter > +owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and > +sell ("Utilize") this software, but solely to the extent that any > +such patent is necessary to Utilize the software alone, or in > +combination with an operating system licensed under an approved Open > +Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative at > +http://opensource.org/licenses. The patent license shall not apply to > +any other combinations which include this software. No hardware per > +se is licensed hereunder. Unfortunately FreeBSD is no "operating system licensed under an approved Open Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative at http://opensource.org/licenses" ... I'm aware that this is not the first ineffective patent license in the tree, though. Fabian [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlaKeBUACgkQBYqIVf93VJ3ItQCghj3qNCh+udq2Pewn/3Y6UpI1 2zMAn3rSg9nIffkAK/lbrkpWqaQJd78j =IQ54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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