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[Cc-bizcom] BSD + distributing relicensed proprietary binaries

From: Marshall Van Alstyne <marshall AT MIT.EDU>
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Subject: [Cc-bizcom] BSD + distributing relicensed proprietary binaries
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:41:36 -0500

News from today's Slashdot on distributing proprietary firmware binaries with a BSD variant:

"The Age has a story up about how the OpenBSD community has been contacting wireless chipset vendors to license their firmware binaries under terms that would allow for free redistribution. This is important, because even with existing GPL and BSD licensed drivers for these chipsets, the drivers don't function without first loading onerously licensed firmware binaries which can only be acquired from the vendor, not shipped by an OSS provider."

[Cc-bizcom] BSD + distributing relicensed proprietary binaries, Marshall Van Alstyne, 11/01/2004