From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:16:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAr7Pr-61jA3aC1y+EZ6oC2CvrO+-X9LD3PWHAZX9Xkn+tawKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20772.33119.636728.864172@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Alec Warner wrote:
>
>> Lets not re-invent the wheel here:
>
>> Debian has free and non-free packages.
>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux
>
>> # free copyright
>> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/firmware-free/firmware-free_3.2/firmware-linux-free.copyright
>
>> # nonfree copyright
>> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_0.36+wheezy.1/firmware-linux-nonfree.copyright
>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/linux-firmware.git/tree/linux-firmware.spec
>> Specifically:
>> License: GPL+ and GPLv2+ and MIT and Redistributable, no modification permitted
>
>> It looks like OpenSuse has split packages. Most distros are debian or
>> redhat based these days.
>
>> We can easily have a firmware package that is USE="nonfree" and only
>> install the libre firmware, ala debian. This also fixes 'the license
>> issue' because if people want ACCEPT_LICENSE=@OSI-APPROVED they just
>> need to turn the nonfree flag off.
>
>> None of this is rocket science, and the work has likely already been
>> done by others, so just take it and go.
>
> 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.)
-A
>
> Ulrich
>
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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 [this message]
2013-02-20 9:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
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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