On Jan 3, 2011, Felipe Sanches <[email protected]> wrote: > Well... right now nothing changes for LinuxLibre because the device > remains non-free (it depends on 2 firmware images: one - the 8051 code > - now has source code available but the other - the fpga configuration > bitstream - doen't yet).
If one of them is definitely Free, then it would be nice for Linux-libre to stop disabling the request for it, and maybe to keep the binary file (depending on the license). But I'm still not sure: are the sources you got the corresponding sources for the binary in the Linux tree? > This out-of-tree code is from 2010 and is said to work with the device > while the mainline tree code is 10 years old. Well, then now I know, it's not corresponding sources, and the version in Linux remains non-Free. Now, once there are source and binary in say the linux-firmware repository, under a suitable Free Software license, I'd probably change the request so it's not disabled any more. > The only practical thing to do is to get their new driver code into > mainline Oh, the updated firmware file requires a new driver, too? If that's true, the right thing to do would be to treat the request for the old firmware like the request for any other non-Free firmware file. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
