The ebuild currently has LICENSE="as-is" which most likely is wrong. This is a binary package, and there is no license included in the tarball. Also I cannot find any info about distribution terms on the HOMEPAGE. Can you please ask upstream for clarification under with terms this package can be distributed?
well, it's AVM firmware for their active Boards, downloaded from their FTP. Of course, it's proprietary, but you need that firmware for the linux kernel driver. They are available for exactly that purpose. Look here: ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/ especially the B1/C2/C4/T1 directories... but these files are now partially removed, if I see it right. I still have a README from there: Firmware for the AVM cards: b1 - AVM B1, AVM B1 PCI, AVM B1 PCI V4.0, AVM B1 PCMCIA c2 - AVM C2 c4 - AVM C4 t1 - AVM T1, AVM T1-B bluefusb - BlueFritz! USB BlueFritz! USB v2.0 has built-in firmware, so you don't need a firmware file !!!
Coming back to this: We fetch the distfile from Opensuse mirrors. Also AVM is aware that SuSE redistributes their files, at least they mention it in <ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/b1/linux/info.txt> (and info.txt in other subdirectories). That file also says: "To allow manually integration in other distributions or kernel versions (makefiles), the sourcecode is included as well." SuSE labels their i4lfirm package as under the "SUSE-Firmware" license, see line 159 in <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/i4l-base/i4l-base.spec?expand=1>. I failed to locate the text of that license, though. IANAL, but I think it is safe to assume that these files can be freely redistributed. So unless there are objections, I'll change LICENSE of the ebuild to "freedist".
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) > IANAL, but I think it is safe to assume that these files can be freely > redistributed. So unless there are objections, I'll change LICENSE of the > ebuild to "freedist". Fixed.
