I also would like to see the various Intel wireless firmware in the
firmware-nonfree package.

1.) The Intel 3945 adapter was previously supported by the ipw3945 driver
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/

but that was deprecated starting with 2.6.24, and replaced with the new
Intel Wireless WiFi Link drivers
http://intellinuxwireless.org/

which provide a driver for the 3945 and also the 4965, both are in upstream
2.6.24 but need the microcode available at
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads

The license is at
http://intellinuxwireless.org/LICENSE.iwlwifi-ucode

and they have a licenses FAQ at
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=FAQ&s=license

2.) In addition to the firmware for the ipw2200 mentioned by the original
submitter, there is also the other legacy ipw2100
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
(I didn't look at the license though)

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:11:32AM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:

Was dropped because not longer supported by current kernels.

Is already shipped as firmware-iwlwifi.

We decided that we can't ship it with this license in non-free.

Bastian

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Hi,

Bastian Blank wrote:

Why is that? Apparently Ubuntu can ship it (IIRC). Also, there is a faq page[1]
indicating that it is possible to redistribute the firmware.

But if you have already decided that the firmware can't be packaged, I guess
this bug should be closed or marked wontfix.

[1] http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware_faq.php

Hi,

On Saturday 03 May 2008 23:57, Per Olofsson wrote:

Where did you document this decission? On what is it based?

Or rather taken to the tech CTTE or whatever...

Looks perfectly fine for nonfree to me.

regards,
Holger

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On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

| Your rights to redistribute the Software shall be contingent upon your
| installation of this Agreement in its entirety in the same directory as
| the Software.

This was interpreted by at least one person that the license needs to
pushed in the same directory on the mirror than the package.

This is not the license. This is the FAQ to the license. For the license
see [1].

Bastian

[1]: http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=4

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Bastian Blank wrote:

But the FAQ says:

"The package must install the LICENSE file in the same location on the system
that the firmware files are installed."

I.e., /lib/firmware. If that's not convincing, perhaps we should ask Intel for a
clarification? I doubt that other distributions place the license file in their
mirror directories.

Hi,

On Sunday 04 May 2008 17:23, Waldi wrote:

And because there is one person interpreting this differently than the
licencing party itself, Debian shall not do what the licencing party and the
users would like to see?

I have every reason to believe Intel wants us to distribute the firmware!

The question where this discussion is documented is still open. And the
question whether you as the maintainers agree with that one person or if you
going to change this...

regards,
Holger

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On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 06:06:53PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

Who wants to define that someone is not allowed to define a binary dump
as source and publish it under the GPL and we are therefor not allowed
to distribute such things?

Somewhere in the IRC logs.

Update: Just found it, was between aba and me, in #debian.de, 25.5.2006.

Hi,

On Sunday 04 May 2008 19:12, Bastian Blank wrote:

Even after reading this three times and having my second coffee I fail to
understand what this paragraph has to do with the ipw2x00 firmware. It's not
GPLed.

Maybe I need a third coffee though.

So there is no public log. (And it was probably also in the wrong language :)