Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800,
  Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>  Bruno Wolff III wrote: 
>  >
>  > That's not what I said. That page is Broadcom distributing
>  > the firmware.  They don't let other people do it (at least
>  > not without signing a contract).  
>  
>  Not so;  I have read their licence.txt -- have you?  The
>  licence.txt is in simple English (not leaglease) -- it allows
>  distribution of the firmware.

I went back and looked and it seems that the b43 and brcm80211 drivers
use different firmware. The new firmware is redistributable and the old
firmware isn't. A lwn article from last Spetmber goes over this.
http://lwn.net/Articles/406491/
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