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Subject: Re: 3CR990 driver linux source
From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 13:25:13 CST

> As far as I know, there is no reason to modify or reverse engineer the
> tc990image, I believe is it a runtime image downloaded to the NIC, which
> we may have no reason to modify.

I have reason to believe that the licence will be removed soon. As it is,
this cannot go into our release. They're talking to us.

> Otherwise if need be, the EU/France laws allow reverse engineering for
> device compatibility, non?

That's so irrelevant.

First off, I don't see why anyone would go through that much effort.

Second off, that image with that licence could not go onto a CD.