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Is this license ok with APL? What about the limited patent clause? What does it even mean? We are not OSI approved. This file holds a firmware image, rest of the driver code is from FreeBSD. /*
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Apart from the patent paragraph, it's a fairly standard BSD-like licence, which should be no problem with APL or GPL.
The patent paragraph is unusual, and I don't really know what to make of it. Do we need a patent licence to redistribute redistributable freeware?
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Strictly speaking the firmware image is not always needed as once loaded to the device it stays in the device. Tried that with PIC32MX and I was able to blink the leds without first uploading the image.
User could also download the image file from Ralinks site if it can't be included and driver would load it from disk.
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Even when power is removed? If so, why doesn't the device ship with the firmware installed?
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Yes, even when unplugged. As I see it this is the same with all such devices. The firmware is first send to the devices RAM and then the device is instructed to copy it from RAM to EEPROM. This takes a bit of time to do.
This will allow for firmware upgrade, don't know why but W7 driver always just loads new firmware even if the device already has a image. Driver can query the device and ask if it has a firmware.
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