From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:09:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20772.37568.672839.401480@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr-61jA3aC1y+EZ6oC2CvrO+-X9LD3PWHAZX9Xkn+tawKg@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I mostly agree. However, there are not two, but three classes of
>> licenses for firmware images:
>>
>> 1. Free software
>> 2. Non-free, but can be redistributed
>> 3. Cannot be redistributed
>>
>> The split between 2 and 3 is the more important one, because we
>> cannot mirror things under 3.
> Have we talked to debian then? Nominally if we can't dist it, they
> can't dist it (and vice versa.)
From a quick glance at their tarball it seems that they exclude some
firmware images that are included in our tarball.
For example, I don't see atmsar11.fw and k1212.dsp (first two entries
in WHENCE) in their tarball. Which makes sense because both are not
redistributable.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-16 13:08 [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time Pacho Ramos
2013-02-16 13:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-02-16 13:41 ` Aaron Bauman
2013-02-16 13:44 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 13:59 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-16 14:00 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-16 14:10 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 15:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-16 15:14 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-16 16:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-16 16:28 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-02-16 17:35 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-16 18:40 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-02-16 15:18 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 15:43 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-17 17:40 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-18 4:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2013-02-18 11:22 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-18 13:11 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-18 21:02 ` Rémi Cardona
2013-02-16 14:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-16 14:42 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 15:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-17 5:06 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-17 10:04 ` [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware (was: Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time) Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-19 14:18 ` [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-20 4:43 ` [gentoo-dev] linux-firmware Duncan
2013-02-20 6:03 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 7:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-20 8:16 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 9:09 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-02-20 16:19 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-20 16:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-20 16:52 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-20 8:37 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-20 12:02 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 12:10 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2013-02-20 13:29 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-20 13:31 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 13:17 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 16:03 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 16:10 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 18:22 ` Greg KH
2013-02-20 18:25 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-20 18:43 ` Greg KH
2013-02-20 18:51 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-21 17:26 ` Greg KH
2013-02-21 17:44 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-02-21 18:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-21 19:55 ` Greg KH
2013-02-21 20:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-02-21 21:22 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-21 22:44 ` Greg KH
2013-02-21 23:18 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-22 1:54 ` David Abbott
2013-02-22 20:53 ` Roy Bamford
2013-02-21 22:16 ` Duncan
2013-02-20 16:28 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-20 16:37 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 16:45 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 17:01 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 19:18 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-20 17:17 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 17:25 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-20 17:28 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 17:32 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-20 17:42 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 19:20 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-20 19:24 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-20 19:40 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-17 10:05 ` [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time Michał Górny
2013-02-17 10:09 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-17 11:42 ` Michał Górny
2013-02-18 5:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2013-02-17 17:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-16 21:45 ` Tim Harder
2013-02-18 10:43 ` Sven Eden
2013-02-18 13:23 ` Anthony G. Basile
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