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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc</H1>
<B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 12 22:19:38 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17:34:34 Thierry Vignaud wrote:
><i> On 12 October 2010 17:02, Anssi Hannula <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">anssi.hannula at iki.fi</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> > Restrictions:
</I>><i> > - packages can only depend or builddepend on packages in main itself
</I>><i> > - packages need to have an open source license
</I>><i> > o unwritten exception: various non-free but distributable firmware
</I>><i> > (see
</I>><i> > kernel-firmware), for example radeon firmware and TG3 ethernet
</I>><i> > firmware are included despite their license; the selection is arbitrary
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's not an exception. Those that as a reasonable licence go in
</I>><i> main/release/kernel-firmware
</I>><i> Those w/o a license go into non-free/release/kernel-firmware-extra
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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
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