Unspecified patents not actually licensed "Limited patent license. Realtek Semiconductor 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." /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/rtwn/LICENSE Obviously FreeBSD isn't licensed under an OSI-approved license.