Hi all, Thanks for the comments. The conference discussion was very helpful. We'll work on this when I land in Denver and vet it posted asap. This should make it clear to vendors and easier on the community to review.
Thanks Patrick, Stefan, Carl-Daniel, and everyone else at the conference for the feedback. Regards, Marc On Sun, Oct 11, 2015, 8:28 PM Alex G. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I like that we're talking about a policy, but I really feel the policy, > as written right now, is specific to ISA blobs, and some of the points > do not map very well to non-ISA blobs. I've made some inline comments om > that. > > A point about ISA blobs and their licensing, is that whatever legalese > they come with should not have restrictive clauses. E.g: > - no-reverse-engineering/decompilation clause(s) > - no-modification clause(s) > - only-use-on-<vendorname>-hardware clause(s) > Abstracting the lack of source code, any clause which is incompatible > with the freedoms afforded by the GPL should be rejected. I realize this > sets a high bar, but I think protecting our contributors who do exactly > the things I've exemplified should take priority. > > Alex > > On 10/11/2015 08:35 AM, Patrick Georgi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > on the coreboot conference, we discussed a draft of a policy for > > inclusion of binaries into the 3rdparty/blobs repository. > > > > If binaries are required, we want them redistributable in > > 3rdparty/blobs to make users' lives easier, and make it possible to > > deal with them as good as it is possible with binaries. > > Having clear rules should also make it easier for the developers at > > vendors who try to maintain these binaries - no more back-and-forth on > > gerrit that some more documentation is necessary and so on. > > Other rules are simply necessary (eg. a license allowing > > redistribution) for practical reasons. > > > > This doesn't mean we encourage the use of binaries, and to use them, > > because they still need to be integrated through code in the coreboot > > repository. > > > > The current draft can be found at > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wMdDUAZR2Z9V7hcs3IhIOqw6sYQxb3vPEmbITTCrOwU/edit > , > > and is open for comments. > > > > The idea is to instate this policy (or something like this) once we > > found agreement. We can still revise the policy over time. > > > > > > Patrick > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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