Combined hardware identification databases
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This repository contain a specially re-packaged copy of the pci.ids
and usb.ids files.

These two databases are maintained by Martin Mares and Michal Vaner
(pci.ids) and Stephen J. Gowdy (usb.ids) through the help of
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 reason to repackage the files together is to make it simpler for
applications to require them, without having to bring in either
pciutils or usbutils, that might be unnecessary for most installs.

Updates
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The hwids tarball is updated generally on the weekends, and tagged if
there are new files available. You can download the tags in form of
tarballs directly from [the GitHub
repository](https://github.com/Flameeyes/hwids).

License
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The pci.ids and usb.ids files are both released under dual-license,
and you can choose which one to apply to your needs. The options are
either the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (which
you'll find in the archive, in the file named gpl-2.0.txt), or the
3-clause BSD license that follows:

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