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>>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I mostly agree. However, there are not two, but three classes of |
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>> licenses for firmware images: |
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>> 1. Free software |
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>> 2. Non-free, but can be redistributed |
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>> 3. Cannot be redistributed |
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>> The split between 2 and 3 is the more important one, because we |
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>> cannot mirror things under 3. |
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> Have we talked to debian then? Nominally if we can't dist it, they |
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> can't dist it (and vice versa.) |
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From a quick glance at their tarball it seems that they exclude some |
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firmware images that are included in our tarball. |
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For example, I don't see atmsar11.fw and k1212.dsp (first two entries |
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in WHENCE) in their tarball. Which makes sense because both are not |
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redistributable. |
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Ulrich |
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