On Sat, 25 May 2013 09:59:00 +0200 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. better ask the Fedora legal list I think as this is more a legal question than technical Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
