Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Oct 22 08:39:53 UTC 2007


Le Lun 22 octobre 2007 10:18, Peter Lemenkov a écrit :
> 2007/10/22, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
>
>> > Since we can include firmware for different devices into Fedora,
>> can
>> > we include win32-binaries for use together with Wine, DOS
>> executables
>> > for dosbox, jars for use with Java stacks , etc (if will be
>> confirmed
>> > that they works).
>
>> These are executed on the main CPU so the answer is no
>
> There is no such prohibition.

There is such a prohibition. The firmware-specific binary blobs
licensing relaxing does not apply to the OP examples.

Every single example he made falls under general Fedora rules: must be
built from source and use FLOSS license.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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