Re: Packaging firmwares

[Florian Weimer]

* Richard Hughes:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, 22:21 Florian Weimer,  wrote:
>
>  Is FirmwareUpdate.efi really firmware in Fedora's sense?  Won't it run
>  on the host CPU?
>
> This is flashed hardware!? Can't mellanox just use the LVFS to
> distribute firmware rather than having to install a package of blobs
> you're going to use exactly once?

I don't know if the binary is included by accident.  But it's something
that needs to be investigated.

Thanks,
Florian
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Re: Packaging firmwares

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, 22:21 Florian Weimer,  wrote:

> Is FirmwareUpdate.efi really firmware in Fedora's sense?  Won't it run
> on the host CPU?
>

This is flashed hardware!? Can't mellanox just use the LVFS to distribute
firmware rather than having to install a package of blobs you're going to
use exactly once?

Richard

>
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Re: Packaging firmwares

[Robert-André Mauchin]

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
> 
>   
> 
> 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.


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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Packaging firmwares

[Richard Fontana]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:21 PM Florian Weimer  wrote:

> In the Git repository
>
>   
>
> 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.

Right, if that is how the explicit license information in that
repository should be interpreted, then this is not OK for Fedora.

Richard
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Re: Packaging firmwares

[Florian Weimer]

* 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

  

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
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