Re: 3945 how too (fc6)?

Chris Wilson wrote :

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Troy Engel wrote:
> 
> >> I don't know about ipw3495, but with ipw2200 you can't get the firmware in 
> >> an RPM package, you have to agree to the license and download it from 
> >
> > Incorrect. ATrpms offers a ready-to-use ipw2200 firmware RPM, I use it 
> > myself on my Thinkpad at home.
> 
> Did you agree to the license conditions at 
> [http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7]? If not, then ATrpms 
> is violating the firmware license.

IANAL, so I definitely don't understand the exact legal implications of
most of the content of the agreement, but :

"Your rights to redistribute the Software shall be contingent upon your
installation of this Agreement in its entirety in the same directory as
the Software."

I redistribute the software on freshrpms.net, with the agreement in the
same rpm package. As I understand it, this complies with the
redistribution terms. Of course, the end user needs to also comply with
them, but that's not mandatory to _download_ the software (obviously,
since the download also includes the terms they can't have read yet),
only to _use_ the software.

Note that I also include this in the package description :

Usage of the firmware is subject to the terms contained in :
/usr/share/doc/ipw2200-firmware-3.0/LICENSE. Please read it carefully.

(as seen on http://bordeaux.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1330)

I repeat, IANAL, so this is just my interpretation of the terms as an
"Independent Software Vendor", so I could be completely wrong. But as
for all my packages, if I'm ever asked by the original vendor to cease
redistribution, I definitely will.

Matthias

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