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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:01:12 +0200
Message-Id: <CNOGS53LOU3L.2J64QOTJB45LL@sumire>
Subject: Re: ipw2100 wifi card firmware
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From: "alice" <alice@ayaya.dev>
To: "Riccardo Mottola" <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>,
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On Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 9:37 PM CEST, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Alice,
>
> alice wrote:
> > but as for everything else, it is all free software. no shortcuts there=
.
> >
> > as for the ipw2x00 firmware, the licence isn't really much different th=
an a
> > lot of things in linux-firmware:
>
> that's what I thought... almost all the same "crap", although I am not
> expert in these license details.
>
> Or maybe a "non-free" package?
we used to have a non-free repository (that wasn't built, and people had
to build the packages themselves, but it had the convenience of being
easy once you set that up). but that was dropped too, so linux-firmware
is really the only exemption now. i don't think there'll be any
exceptions for that.

there is however, nothing stopping other people from hosting
repositories- something like firmware has basically no dependencies, so
it would never even run into issues as an external package via an
external someone-else-hosted repository in /etc/apk/repositories.

i do have one myself, though funnily most of the things there are also
free anyway.
>
> Riccardo