Re: Packaging firmwares

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On Friday, 26 June 2020 23:20:38 CEST Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Robert-André Mauchin:
> > I have a review request for a firmware: Boot firmware (ATF, UEFI...) for
> > Mellanox BlueField:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846139
> > 
> > I would like some opinions on whether this is acceptable firmware. The
> > binary contains open source code for which the license are documented,
> > but no code source is provided, only the resulting binary firmware.
> 
> Is FirmwareUpdate.efi really firmware in Fedora's sense?  Won't it run
> on the host CPU?
> 
> In the Git repository
> 
>   <https://github.com/Mellanox/bootimages/tree/bluefield-rel/3.x>
> 
> Mellanox does not provide permission to redistribute the firmware, only
> required notices of components that they have used to build it.  Just
> saying that something has been derived (in part) from open source
> software does not make it open source, or even redistributable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian

Right, the Mellanox people are CC to the bug so I assume they want it 
packaged. I will ask for further clarifications.

Thanks.


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