Already aware of it. After all it went via the board for approval first ;-) I was actually working on packaging the firmware this morning so I can build a 3.7 kernel for it in rawhide. Peter On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tristan Santore <tristan.santore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am forwarding this to the ARM list, as this might be of interest to > some of you working on Raspberry PI support. > > Regards, > > Tristan > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Update to Binary Firmware Exceptions > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:56:24 -0400 > From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Two minor exceptions have been added to the Licensing Guidelines: > > A new exception has been added to permit prebuilt binary QEMU ROMs > implementing BIOS or Firmware for QEMU system targets to be packaged in > those situations where it is not practical or possible to build them > from source, as long as the corresponding source code is also included > in the Source RPM package. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:SoftwareTypes#QEMU_ROMs > > The wording of the Binary Firmware exception has been amended slightly > to permit the packaging and inclusion of firmware files which are > necessary to boot Fedora on some devices (e.g. raspberrypi), as long as > the standard exception criteria are met. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:SoftwareTypes#Binary_Firmware > > Thanks, > > ~tom > > == > Fedora Project > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list > legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
