Hi, On 11/19/2010 10:39 AM, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > thanks for looking at it. > >>> However for some of the reports it is only the matter of someone looking >>> at them as they contain the obvious solution to the problem. >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595165 >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582013 >> >> The solution is not obvious at all: to include firmware, we need a license >> which allows that in the first place. The Ubuntu mailing list link you >> posted to one of your reports does not include any actual license, only >> talks about some license existing somewhere (which don't even tell us >> whether that license is acceptable for Fedora in the first place â we're >> quite tolerant when it comes to firmware licenses, but there are some >> restrictions which are unacceptable even for firmware, e.g. forbidding any >> commercial use). >> >> Plus, this is not actually an issue with Free Software, but with the lack of >> some proprietary firmware. > > it is against free in kernel drivers and the bugs have been rotting in bugzilla > for the lifecycle of F11 and F12 without anyone even asking for info or anything. > >> And finally, those bugs should be filed against linux-firmware, not kernel. > > I will file it with the correct package the next time when I confirm this is still > an issue. Note, I've mailed Steven Toth (the owner of the website where the firmware is hosted) asking him if he can provide us with a clear license document for these firmwares. I've also indicated that it would be even better if the could get them into linux-firmware upstream. Regards, Hans -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
