explain the pedigree of these firmwares, since the license is not quite right.

We feel we have done due diligence though in trying to contact the original
distributors, and therefore, we do distribute it.

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diff --git a/sys/dev/microcode/tigon/tigon-license b/sys/dev/microcode/tigon/tigon-license
index 1a1098c91d8..86e92c9da74 100644
--- a/sys/dev/microcode/tigon/tigon-license
+++ b/sys/dev/microcode/tigon/tigon-license
@@ -3,5 +3,14 @@
  *
  * $FreeBSD: /c/ncvs/src/sys/pci/ti_fw.h,v 1.9 2000/07/20 22:24:42 wpaul Exp $
 
+We distribute this firmware although the 'license' above does seem
+conclusive.  We have tried for many years to contact all the potential
+copyright owners and people who used to distribute this (ie. wpaul and
+such), to get the original license text clarified.  We believe the
+original license on the source did specifically allow re-distribution.
+We believe we have done enough in this situation, especially
+considering how dead this product us.  If anyone else knows more,
+please let us know.
+
 This is the license that applies to the tigon1 and tigon2 firmware files
 used by the ti(4) driver.