[linux-dvb] Re: Bad news (summary)

[Andreas Steinhauser <as@gate5.de>]

Hello,

Carsten wrote:
>  > Marcus, please correct me if I am wrong:
>  >
>  > *  The driver is GPL, but without your special firmware
>  >    the driver does not work.
>
>
> No, without the correct driver the card+firmware does not work :-)

Hups, you're right :-)
But the question was: "is there a chance to use the driver _without_
you're firmware modification? Or is the modification so generic, that
ther is no need to change that ever?"

>  > *  The firmware is not GPL and there is a risk that due
>  >    to legal problems it will no longer be distributed in
>  >    the future.
>
> binary-only firmwares. The firmware even runs on a different CPU.
> Even on the same CPU binary-only modules which interact with GPL
> modules and the kernel are allowed. We don't see a problem.

But the permission to the firmware code of fujitsu-siemens is granted to
convergence? So what would happen, if convergence would go down?

Andreas Steinhauser



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