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02-November-04, 03:01 AM
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  |  Slashdot // OpenBSD Activism Shows Drivers Can Be Freed grey writes "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." (Read more, below.) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/01/2321205 |
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