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Subject: Re: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 21:25 +0300, ysgrifennodd Alon Bar-Lev:
> And to have a system that you know exactly what running in it...
> Having a binary closed source violate this.

Also if the binary only chunk of code is neccessary to make the open
source bit work then its a derivative work as I understand the
situation, which makes it all rather questionable from a licensing
perspsective.

Hopefully Intel will find a sensible solution to the problem or someone
will just reverse engineer it away.

Alan