Bug 261227 - The manual page for rtwnfw(4) describes a licence agreement requirement that seems to be no longer required
Summary: The manual page for rtwnfw(4) describes a licence agreement requirement that ...
Status: New
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Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...
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Reported: 2022-01-15 13:24 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2022-01-15 13:48 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-01-15 13:24:37 UTC 
From within <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=7453645f2a9411a3f9d982b768bcc323f41cf906> (2016-10-17): 

<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/diff/sys/modules/rtwnfw/Makefile.inc?id=7453645f2a9411a3f9d982b768bcc323f41cf906> in Makefile.inc the former requirement became a comment: 

# FIRMWARE_LICENSE=	realtek

Possibly contrary to this, rtwnfw(4) states: 

>      For the loaded firmware to be enabled for use the license at
>      /usr/share/doc/legal/realtek.LICENSE must be agreed to by 
>      adding the following line to loader.conf(5):
> 
> 	   legal.realtek.license_ack=1

From <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/551385>: 

> … firmware gets loaded (with or without legal.realtek.license_ack=1 
> in loader.conf(5), …