Il 23/05/2013 15:25, Peter Oliver ha scritto: > Arduino is an electronics prototyping board, and also a GNU > GPL2-licenced IDE for writing and uploading code to such boards. Fedora > has packages for the IDE. > > Recent versions of the IDE include WiFi firmware for Arduino > (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoWiFiShield). The Arduino "source" > bundles include the binary firmware. Source code for the firmware is > also included, but there are no build scripts, and the firmware is not > built when the IDE itself is built. > > Is it permissible to include this firmware in the Fedora packages? My > impression is that it's not firmware in the sense described at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware, because > it's not firmware for hardware on which Fedora runs. Rather, I believe > that it is content > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Code_Vs_Content). > > Without access to the build scripts (which the GNU GPL2specifically says > must be included), do we even have a licence to redistribute the firmware? The firmware is merely aggregated to the IDE, so the GNU GPLv2 doesn't matter here. The firmware license is definitely not free. I don't know if you can get an exception because it doesn't run on the CPU. The safest bet is to ask FESCo. Paolo -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
