[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

[Anssi Hannula]

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17:34:34 Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> On 12 October 2010 17:02, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Restrictions:
> >  - packages can only depend or builddepend on packages in main itself
> >  - packages need to have an open source license
> >   o unwritten exception: various non-free but distributable firmware
> > (see
> >     kernel-firmware), for example radeon firmware and TG3 ethernet
> > firmware are included despite their license; the selection is arbitrary
> 
> It's not an exception. Those that as a reasonable licence go in
> main/release/kernel-firmware
> Those w/o a license go into non-free/release/kernel-firmware-extra

It would seem like that, but if you take a look in the included firmware files 
you'll see that is not true (I also raised this on cooker@ once: "[RFC] Non-
free firmware: main or non-free, or?").

Some randomexamples:
kernel-firmware:
 - TG3 firmware: redistribution allowed, no modifications
 - Sun Cassini: Unknown
 - ti_usb_3410_5052: redistributable, no modifications.

kernel-firmware-extra:
 - agere firmware: redistributable, modifications allowed
 - Atheros firmware: same
 - usbdux: GPL with source code


Basically 'kernel-firmware' contains all firmware that has at some point been 
in the main kernel itself, while 'kernel-firmware-extra' contains all new 
firmware.

License does not factor in here.

-- 
Anssi Hannula