Your message dated Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:34:31 -0700 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c has caused the Debian Bug report #494120, regarding binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-1 Severity: serious Hi, drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a small chunk of binary code: static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]= { 0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a, 0x37, 0x6a, 0x17, 0x8a, 0x1e, 0x86, 0x43, 0x40, [...] Since the licensing terms allow redistribution, shipping it is not illegal but is a DFSG violation. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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--- Begin Message ---On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:17:57AM +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.26-1 > Severity: serious > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a > small chunk of binary code: > static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]= > { > 0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a, > 0x37, 0x6a, 0x17, 0x8a, 0x1e, 0x86, 0x43, 0x40, > [...] > Since the licensing terms allow redistribution, shipping it is not illegal but > is a DFSG violation. By "small chunk", you mean 64 bytes of data. That's not a program; that's almost certainly register initialization values, which are data, and there is no requirement in the DFSG that arbitrary bits of data (which are too short and lacking in originality to be covered by copyright anyway) be distributed in a textual source form. You need to find yourself a more appropriate way to express your concerns about such files than by unilaterally declaring them to be release-critical bugs. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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