Re: Keyspan USB serial adapter on Debian

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:04:20AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:12:38PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> > 
> > gregkh the keyspan firmware restricts usage to boxes with keyspan,
> > so yes it is peculiar.
> 
> What do you mean it "restricts usage"?  There is no problems with the
> keyspan firmware being in the Linux kernel tree, except for the fact
> that DEBIAN doesn't like it.
> 
> This is not a legal problem at all, but a made-up-one by some Debian
> people only.

have you read the license?
"This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with
Keyspan hardware."

my box does not contain a keyspan hardware and it is infact
a quite bizarre clause to prevent hardware rip off.
 
> > i'm in conversation with keyspan to fix that fact.
> 
> Fix what?  Debian's odd rules?  That would be interesting to see :)

fix the license, a bsd license like the qlogic stuff would do us a 
great favour. i could just reenable keyspan.
 
> Actually, when this first came up over 7 years ago, I posted a simple
> way to fix this "issue" on the debian-legal mailing list.  No one has
> yet to send me a patch to do this, showing that no one really cares
> about this issue, but that they just like arguing about it.

i'm keeping away from d-legal and getting my job done.
so i'm still waiting for an applied or answer on the clarified dabusb
license patch.

i agree with ac that request_firmware() is the real goal,
as one should not need to recompile and reboot to update
the firmware.

if you can give a pointer to your d-legal post i'd be more then happy.

-- 
maks

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