From: Diego Elio Pettenò Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:31:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Update information. X-Git-Tag: hwids-20121210~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=abdd60ca48d3e39ef39e0bd15eca82afd2f6aea7;p=oweals%2Fhwids.git Update information. --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a6106b3..7d05ab8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ Combined hardware identification databases ========================================== This repository contain a specially re-packaged copy of the pci.ids -and usb.ids files, as well as a copy of IEEE's oui.txt file +and usb.ids files, as well as a copy of IEEE's databases for the +Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUI) and Individual Address Block +(IAB). The two IDs databases are maintained by Martin Mares and Michal Vaner (pci.ids) and Stephen J. Gowdy (usb.ids) through the help of @@ -11,8 +13,11 @@ volunteers who can submit them to the two submission web applications: * [pci.ids](http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/) * [usb.ids](https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/index.html) -The OUI database is an officially maintained index by IEEE, and can be -accessed at https://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/public.html . +The OUI and IAB databases are two officially maintained indexes by +IEEE, and can be accessed at: + + * [OUI](http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/public.html) + * [IAB](http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/iab/public.html) The reason to repackage the files together is to make it simpler for applications to require them, without having to bring in either @@ -57,6 +62,7 @@ you'll find in the archive, in the file named gpl-2.0.txt), or the (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -The OUI database is not officially licensed by IEEE, but should be -possible to consider it as freely distributable, as a collection of -facts. +The IEEE datafiles for OUI and IAB assignments are provided by the +IEEE without an explicit license, but are considered in all effect as +public domain, as they are simple representation of factual +information, which would then fail the threshold of originality test.