Subject: Re: Alcatel DSL drivers
To: None <Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/23/2001 11:46:01
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
> 2/ Their definition of Open is not 100% open AFAIK. Read
> the license. You could probably write a firmware loader
> and distribute it, but not the firmware, which you'd
> need to download but you cant because you need the
> device to get on the internet to get the firmware
> with ;) Thats a hypothetical worst case situation
> though ;))
Theoretically it should be possible to write something to
extract the firmware from the Windows disk that ships with
the device.
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