Fedora 8 ideas

[Hans de Goede]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
>> Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 à 13:31 -0500, Rex Dieter a écrit :
>>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Alsa is mostly a case of "someone needs to poke RH Legal to check the
>>>> alsa firmware dumps can be packaged (and if not go ask the hadrware
>>>> vendors for permission)"
>>> All Fedora requires is free redistributability.
>> In the case of alsa you have a huge firmware archive for hardware from
>> many vendors, with alsa telling you the whole set is GPL, and with many
>> text files in the alsa archive tracing vendor permissions.
>>
>> So the question is: do you trust the text files as is? Do they cover all
>> the firmwares in the archive set? Have any of them incompatible terms?
> 
> My take is to trust upstream, until there surfaces cause/evidence to believe
> otherwise.
> 

+1

We do need to go through all the README's though and check the actual 
conditions. For each included firmware file, but I see no reason not to trust 
included permission notices.

Regards,

Hans