>>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Alec Warner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: >> I mostly agree. However, there are not two, but three classes of >> licenses for firmware images: >> >> 1. Free software >> 2. Non-free, but can be redistributed >> 3. Cannot be redistributed >> >> The split between 2 and 3 is the more important one, because we >> cannot mirror things under 3.
> Have we talked to debian then? Nominally if we can't dist it, they > can't dist it (and vice versa.) >From a quick glance at their tarball it seems that they exclude some firmware images that are included in our tarball. For example, I don't see atmsar11.fw and k1212.dsp (first two entries in WHENCE) in their tarball. Which makes sense because both are not redistributable. Ulrich
