Matthias Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Jasem Mutlaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Sorry if this is not the appropiate list to discuss >>> this issue. >>> >>> Santa Barbara SBIG CCD camera is one of the most >>> popular cameras used in astronomy. In order to >>> operate, the CCD requires a firmware to be uploaded >>> upon detection on the USB port. Otherwise, you can't >>> establish any further communications at all. >> >> What is the license of this firmware? Is it possible to re-distribute >> it? If this is not the case, then we cannot include it, > > Unfortunately the Linux Developer Kit from SBIG does not contain > any hint about the license of the firmware. Though the included > example code is mentioned to be "free". > Note, that the camera needs a USB driver, which is provided by SBIG > as a binary only non-kernel driver also without any license.
With such an unclear license situation, we cannot take these for openSUSE at all. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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