On Friday, 26 June 2020 23:20:38 CEST Florian Weimer wrote: > * Robert-André Mauchin: > > I have a review request for a firmware: Boot firmware (ATF, UEFI...) for > > Mellanox BlueField: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846139 > > > > I would like some opinions on whether this is acceptable firmware. The > > binary contains open source code for which the license are documented, > > but no code source is provided, only the resulting binary firmware. > > Is FirmwareUpdate.efi really firmware in Fedora's sense? Won't it run > on the host CPU? > > In the Git repository > > <https://github.com/Mellanox/bootimages/tree/bluefield-rel/3.x> > > Mellanox does not provide permission to redistribute the firmware, only > required notices of components that they have used to build it. Just > saying that something has been derived (in part) from open source > software does not make it open source, or even redistributable. > > Thanks, > Florian
Right, the Mellanox people are CC to the bug so I assume they want it packaged. I will ask for further clarifications. Thanks. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
