On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:16 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 10.04.2007 08:37, Paul wrote: > >> The following additional text was added to the Packaging/Guidelines > >> Binary Firmware section: > >> > >> The License tag for any firmware that disallows modification should be > >> set to: > >> > >> "Redistributable, no modification permitted" > >> > >> Firmware packages should be named <foo>-firmware, where <foo> is the > >> driver or other hardware component that the firmware is for. > > Does this mean that the likes of madwifi-ng can now be included in what > > was (or still is) extras? > > /me gets confused with all the different madwifi branches -- madwifi-ng > is the current madwifi-Series (0.9.x) iirc, so the rest of this mail is > written under that assumption; please current me if my assumption is wrong > > Madwifi uses a HAL and the binary part is afaik running on the host CPU > and not on the device itself. That's IMHO more like a > statically-included library and afaics no firmware according to > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-adf31c383612aac313719f7b4f8167b7dcf245d2 > > Thus the current madwifi can't be included in Fedora afaics. Correct. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
