svn commit: r293009 - head/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn

[Fabian Keil]

Adrian Chadd <adrian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Author: adrian
> Date: Thu Dec 31 22:31:43 2015
> New Revision: 293009
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/293009
> 
> Log:
>   [rtwn] add rtwn firmware.

When adding proprietary software to the kernel, please make sure
that the relevant WITHOUT_SOURCELESS_* variable is respected:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205874

See also:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204748
and (not your department):
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204747
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204749

> Added: head/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn/LICENSE
> ==============================================================================
> --- /dev/null	00:00:00 1970	(empty, because file is newly added)
> +++ head/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn/LICENSE	Thu Dec 31 22:31:43 2015	(r293009)
> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
> +Copyright (c) 2010, Realtek Semiconductor Corporation 
> +All rights reserved.
[...]
> +Limited patent license. Realtek Semiconductor Corporation grants a world-wide, 
> +royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter 
> +owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and 
> +sell ("Utilize") this software, but solely to the extent that any 
> +such patent is necessary to Utilize the software alone, or in 
> +combination with an operating system licensed under an approved Open 
> +Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative at 
> +http://opensource.org/licenses.  The patent license shall not apply to 
> +any other combinations which include this software.  No hardware per 
> +se is licensed hereunder.

Unfortunately FreeBSD is no "operating system licensed under an approved
Open Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative at
http://opensource.org/licenses" ...

I'm aware that this is not the first ineffective patent license in the tree,
though.

Fabian
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