Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 13:12:18 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 11:34 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All.
> 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).

If you have the source for them and they're under a free licence, then
sure.  Otherwise, no.

This is not the same thing as a firmware, because firmware doesn't
execute on the host CPU.  Practically speaking, that's where we draw the
line.

- ajax




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