Raspberry Pi 2 and VC4 firmware license

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Hi everyone,

Seems like there's not much that's left to be done for stock Fedora to
boot on Raspberry Pi 2 successfully [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308355

One bit that notably prevents us from spinning an image that would boot
on RPi2 board solely from the Fedora packages is the VC4 firmware.

It seems to have a license [2] that's not compatible with Fedora's
"Redistributable, no modification permitted" license for binary
firmware blobs: it seems to have a usage restriction:

> * This software may only be used for the purposes of developing for, 
>   running or using a Raspberry Pi device.

[2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LICENCE.broadcom

The way to go now seems to be to spin a remix with the firmware added.

Does it make sense to talk to Broadcom or Raspberry Pi Foundation/Ltd
and asking them to lift the restriction? I doubt it would cause any
practical difference to them. Does anyone have a contact at Broadcom or
Raspberry Pi I could talk to?

Thanks,
Lubo
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