On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 15:58 +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: [...] > >--- > >Firmwares are an essential part of any modern computer, and it is an > >annoying but currently hard to change fact of life that we lack the > >source for almost all of them. > > Then you can’t distribute these firmwares within the GPL driver sources. > You can only get the permission to distribute the firmware outside the > driver. In Debian this means, you can put it in non-free. > [...]
>From what I see, would it be possible to have a useful (i.e.: complete) package of zaptel-source in the non-free archive? That would be enough for me. > Debian will not show much commitment to free software if it > distributes firmware without source (or without permission) in main. The firmware is inside a tarball with a GPL license from Digium, is this sufficient to freely distribute the firmware? I would say yes, but IANAL so I'll try to ask Digium about that. Some comments from the package mantainers? Thanks! Alex
