[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section

[Anssi Hannula]

Hi all!

I've looked in our kernel-firmware package in core/release, and found
firmware for several dozens of devices that are not OSI-free (as
previously noted but too late for mga1).

Shall I move the firmware files for the following hardware to
kernel-firmware-extra, which is in nonfree/release?

The most notable examples of affected firmware are
- ATI/AMD Radeon cards (free driver)
- Broadcom Tigon3 Gigabit Ethernet
- Intel PRO/100 Ethernet
- Matrox G200/G400/G550

As a reminder:
Debian has the non-free firmware in non-free section.
Fedora has the non-free firmware in the main (and only) section.
Ubuntu has the non-free firmware in the main section.
According to our media policy, they belong to nonfree like in Debian.

Full list below, as parsed from:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=WHENCE;hb=HEAD

> 3c359 - 3Com 3C359 Token Link Velocity XL adapter ()
> acenic -- Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet card (Unknown)
> advansys - AdvanSys SCSI (BSD, no source available.)
> ambassador -- Madge Ambassador (Collage PCI 155 Server) ATM NIC. (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:)
> cassini - Sun Cassini (Unknown)
> cpia2 -- cameras based on Vision's CPiA2 (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:)
> cxgb3 - Chelsio Terminator 3 1G/10G Ethernet adapter ()
> cxgb3 - Chelsio Terminator 3 1G/10G Ethernet adapter (GPLv2 or OpenIB.org BSD license, no source visible)
> dabusb -- Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) Receiver for USB and Linux (Distributable)
> dvb-ttusb-budget -- Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB devices (Unknown)
> e100 -- Intel PRO/100 Ethernet NIC (Unknown)
> emi26 -- EMI 2|6 USB Audio interface ()
> emi62 -- EMI 6|2m USB Audio interface ()
> ib_qib - QLogic Infiniband ()
> io_edgeport - USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:)
> io_ti - USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver ()
> ip2 -- Computone IntelliPort Plus serial device (Unknown)
> kaweth -- USB KLSI KL5USB101-based Ethernet device (Unknown)
> keyspan -- USB Keyspan USA-xxx serial device ()
> mga - Matrox G200/G400/G550 ()
> myri_sbus - MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet (Unknown)
> qla1280 - Qlogic QLA 1240/1x80/1x160 SCSI support (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:)
> qlogicpti - PTI Qlogic, ISP Driver (Unknown)
> r128 - ATI Rage 128 ()
> radeon - ATI Radeon ()
> smc91c92_cs - SMC 91Cxx PCMCIA (Allegedly GPL, but no source visible. Marked:)
> smctr -- SMC ISA/MCA Token Ring adapter ()
> snd-korg1212 -- Korg 1212 IO audio device (Unknown)
> snd-maestro3 -- ESS Allegro Maestro3 audio device (Unknown)
> snd-sb16-csp - Sound Blaster 16/AWE CSP support (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:)
> snd-wavefront - ISA WaveFront sound card (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible.)
> snd-ymfpci -- Yamaha YMF724/740/744/754 audio devices (Unknown)
> starfire - Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support (Allegedly GPLv2, but no source visible.)
> tehuti - Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet ()
> tg3 -- Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards ()
> ti_usb_3410_5052 -- Multi-Tech USB cell modems ("all firmware components are redistributable in binary form")
> ti_usb_3410_5052 -- USB TI 3410/5052 serial device (Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:)
> typhoon - 3cr990 series Typhoon ()
> vicam -- USB 3com HomeConnect (aka vicam) (Unknown)
> whiteheat -- USB ConnectTech WhiteHEAT serial device (Allegedly GPLv2, but no source visible. Marked:)
> yam - YAM driver for AX.25 ()

-- 
Anssi Hannula