This package was debianized by tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> on
Thu,  6 Dec 2001 23:29:52 -0800, based on packaging by Thomas Hood.

Source code was obtained from http://oss.software.ibm.com/acpmodem/ .

Copyright: (C) Copyright International Business Machines Corp. 1999. 
           All Rights Reserved.
License:   GPL

Please refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the text of the GPL 
license.

License issues
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IBM provides the firmware and the firmware loader under the GPL.
The firmware loader is clearly free software.  The firmware,
however, is provided as a binary and this is a cause for concern.

The firmware is not linked with any other code, so no licenses
other than IBM's GPL on the mwavem package are relevant to
Debian's legal right to distribute the package.

The firmware can be freely distributed provided Debian also
distributes the "preferred form for modification".  Since the
binary is the only form that IBM has published, we have to
infer that the binary is the preferred form for modification
in the sense of the GPL as IBM intends it.

Thus there is no legal impediment to Debian distributing the
firmware.

However, because the firmware comes only in binary form, it
fails to satisfy Debian Free Software Guideline #2.
Therefore, the mwavem package has to be kept in the non-free
section of Debian's archive.

That's how I see it, anyway.
--
Thomas Hood
27 March 2004
