[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Thu Mar 24 21:27:02 CET 2011

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
+> On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+>> Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy):
+>>  * core: stuff that is not Free/Open Source according to OSI/FSF does
+>> not belong here. Not even closed-source stuff that we can
+>> redistribute. So if there is at this time, that's something to fix.
+>
+> Most of files in kernel-firmware (which is in core) are not OSI/FSF free
+> (approximate list from 2010 [1]). There was a short thread about that
+> [2] where I asked the question if they should be moved to non-free due
+> to them not being OSI/FSF free, and tmb agreed, while pterjan disagreed
+> (saying BSD without source code (where a portion of the firmware files
+> in question fall) is eligible for core).
+>
+> [1] http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-01/msg00525.php
+> [2] https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110115/002172.html
+
+Ah right, sorry for overlooking this.
+
+So what do we do? amend core inclusion definition for that? or move
+these to nonfree? (and at what cost?) topic for next Council meeting
+to decide? would you like to write a summary for this in
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meeting:council_notes_2011_03_28#open_questions
+?
+
+Romain
+