"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > - Compiling the Verilog source code to a bitstream requires highly > proprietary tools and will never be possible in Fedora. Depending on what you actually consider these data to be, this should be somewhat covered by: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_pregenerated_code Alternately, this stuff seems to be something we could consider to be firmware with the added benefit that we have source. > - Writing the bitstream to the FPGA is possible with GPL tools. That's always nice. Otherwise I wouldn't see the use of packaging a random binary blob that you can't actually use for anything. > - There are currently some proprietary bits in the bitstream, but I > hope those will be removed at some point. If considered "firmware", this might not even be an issue depending on the actual license. I don't know if we've ever had to address the question of proprietary firmware for which we have source. That's probably a question for the legal list. - J< -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
