Already aware of it. After all it went via the board for approval first ;-)

I was actually working on packaging the firmware this morning so I can
build a 3.7 kernel for it in rawhide.

Peter

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tristan Santore
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am forwarding this to the ARM list, as this might be of interest to
> some of you working on Raspberry PI support.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tristan
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Update to Binary Firmware Exceptions
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:56:24 -0400
> From: Tom Callaway <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
>
> Two minor exceptions have been added to the Licensing Guidelines:
>
> A new exception has been added to permit prebuilt binary QEMU ROMs
> implementing BIOS or Firmware for QEMU system targets to be packaged in
> those situations where it is not practical or possible to build them
> from source, as long as the corresponding source code is also included
> in the Source RPM package.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:SoftwareTypes#QEMU_ROMs
>
> The wording of the Binary Firmware exception has been amended slightly
> to permit the packaging and inclusion of firmware files which are
> necessary to boot Fedora on some devices (e.g. raspberrypi), as long as
> the standard exception criteria are met.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:SoftwareTypes#Binary_Firmware
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~tom
>
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