1 Combined hardware identification databases
2 ==========================================
4 This repository contain a specially re-packaged copy of the pci.ids
5 and usb.ids files, as well as a copy of IEEE's oui.txt file
7 The two IDs databases are maintained by Martin Mares and Michal Vaner
8 (pci.ids) and Stephen J. Gowdy (usb.ids) through the help of
9 volunteers who can submit them to the two submission web applications:
11 * [pci.ids](http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/)
12 * [usb.ids](https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/index.html)
14 The OUI database is an officially maintained index by IEEE, and can be
15 accessed at https://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/public.html .
17 The reason to repackage the files together is to make it simpler for
18 applications to require them, without having to bring in either
19 pciutils or usbutils, that might be unnecessary for most installs.
24 The hwids tarball is updated generally on the weekends, and tagged if
25 there are new files available. You can download the tags in form of
26 tarballs directly from [the GitHub
27 repository](https://github.com/gentoo/hwids).
32 The pci.ids and usb.ids files are both released under dual-license,
33 and you can choose which one to apply to your needs. The options are
34 either the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (which
35 you'll find in the archive, in the file named gpl-2.0.txt), or the
36 3-clause BSD license that follows:
38 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
39 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
40 * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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42 * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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45 * Neither the name of the <organization> nor the
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60 The OUI database is not officially licensed by IEEE, but should be
61 possible to consider it as freely distributable, as a collection of