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Iain,

>    I have a question - I've been writing some bluetooth protocol code for
> NetBSD and one of the devices I have is the 3Com PC Card so I have a
> driver for that based on the FreeBSD and BlueZ drivers.
> 
> Regarding the firmware copyright inclusion issue, I was wondering if 3Com
> had ever been asked for permission to redistribute the firmware code with
> a BSD system, or if it was just taken that they would not?

yes, someone (i think it was Julian Elischer) asked 3Com about it. as 
far as i know, it went nowhere.

thanks,
max