FW RT307x/RT309x

FW files are inside the source code of the drivers:

./pci/2010_0115_RT3562_RT3062_Linux_STA_V2.3.0.0/include/firmware.h ./pci/2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/include/firmware.h ./pci/RT3090_LinuxSTA_V2.3.1.4_20100222/include/firmware.h ./usb/2009_1214_RT3572_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0/include/firmware.h ./usb/RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0/include/firmware.h ./usb/RT3070_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.1_20100208/include/firmware.h

License:

/*
Copyright (c) 2007, Ralink Technology Corporation All rights reserved.

Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of Ralink Technology Corporation nor the names of its suppliers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
* No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is permitted.

Limited patent license. Ralink Technology Corporation grants a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and sell ("Utilize") this software, but solely to the extent that any such patent is necessary to Utilize the software alone, or in combination with an operating system licensed under an approved Open Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative at
http://opensource.org/licenses. The patent license shall not apply to any other combinations which include this software. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder.

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*/

Even with this license Fedora, ... etc are able to distribute them.

«Allá muevan feroz guerra, ciegos reyes por un palmo más de tierra;
que yo aquí tengo por mío cuanto abarca el mar bravío, a quien nadie
impuso leyes. Y no hay playa, sea cualquiera, ni bandera de esplendor,
que no sienta mi derecho y dé pecho a mi valor.»

Xose,

Sorry, you can do whatever you want, but I, representing the rt2x00 team cannot back you up in this.

The distributions surely aren't getting the firmware files from source code, when they are available with a clear license in the manufacturer's website.

We also do not condone any (mis)use of those firmware files. However support will only be given to people using firmware obtained from Ralink.

(and please don't take my words as harsh, we all get stuff from places we're not actually very proud)

Luis Correia
rt2x00 project admin