Re: Porting uticom(4)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:00:57AM +0200, Yorick Hardy wrote:
> On the Texas Instruments page
>  http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tusb3410.html
> They link to the linux driver
>  http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tusb-3p-lnxvcp.html
>  http://www.brimson.com/downloads/ti_usb_2.6-1.1.tgz
> which has firmware attributed to Texas Instruments under GPL
>  ti_usb_2.6-1.1/src/ti_fw_3410.h
> and distributed as a binary blob:
>  
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git;a=blob;f=firmware/ti_3410.fw.ihex;h=b22c0425980e9bd324fe6f04bd8c4db88a99b20d;hb=HEAD

Can you ask them if they would dual-license the firmware image under GPL
and the modern Intel firmware license? I've attached a copy of that for
reference.

Joerg

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