ipw2200 firmware moved to restricted

[Chris Jones]

In Hardy, the firmware for ipw2200 wireless cards was in linux-ubuntu-modules (i.e. in main).
In Intrepid, the firmware is in linux-restricted-modules-common (i.e. in restricted).

Users who do not have restricted enabled, or don't have l-r-m-common will find themselves lacking wireless when they upgrade.

Was the firmware incorrectly included in main in the first place?

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

The licence for this firmware is http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7 which appears to grant redistribution (IANAL, LOL, BBQ)

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

bug 269926 touches on the same issue but for iwlwifi .

[Anders Norgaard (anders-norgaard)]

Are you sure that this is "medium" importance? Since I rely on Wireless for connection, this breaks my OS on upgrade to Intrepid...

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

The license grants redistribution, sure (otherwise it wouldn't be redistributed by Ubuntu!), but it forbids disassembly just for starters...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Note that the Ubuntu Licensing Policy states that we will consider firmware in main on a case-by-case basis.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Ben, this was resolved with the linux-firmware package correct?

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

linux-firmware (1.1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Added scsi-firmware udeb with qla and aic firmware

 -- Ben Collins <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:45:39 -0400

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This no longer needs a release notes item since the firmware is staying in main.