Bill Nottingham wrote : > Proposal: > > 1) Firmware packages are given the Group: tag of System Environment/Kernel > (unless we want to make up a new 'Firmware' tag) > 2) The License tag for any firmware that disallows modification should > be set to: > > "Redistributable firmware, no modification permitted" > > Comments? Note that there is other firmware (zd* USB devices, etc) that > is under GPL and wouldn't need this license tag. Seems fine to me. Definitely a big win for end users, and not such a bad compromise overall, although I'd prefer hardware vendors putting firmwares back where they belong... in the hardware... for good, not on every driver load ;-p For the ipw2100 and ipw2200 firmwares, do updated written permissions still need to be obtained from Intel, or do the current ones match these new guidelines? (I'm asking because I always thought they both were fine, but they weren't) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 Load : 0.17 0.44 1.23 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
