[CentOS-devel] LiveCD development
Ned Slider
ned at unixmail.co.uk
Wed May 6 11:33:42 UTC 2009
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
>> But my (outside) stance on the LiveCD is that it should give the best
>> achievable experience possible for people when trying CentOS. To me that
>> includes adding drivers that are available in other repositories (which
>> are missing from upstream, including wireless firmware, etc...)
>
> Sounds good. Are there any legal issues around the wireless firmware
> files ? If its a case of just talking to the providers of these firmware
> to get permission - thats something which we could potentially do.
>
Intel iwl firmwares are licensed as: Redistributable, no modification
permitted. Upstream redistribute them in one of their channels as do
rpmforge.
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