On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:47:56PM +0000, paul_c wrote: > GNU Radio's firmware is not "free" enough for Debian to distribute in Main..
Actually, Paul, the fact that Debian distributes gnuradio and its usrp component including an .rbf firmware file[1] makes it clear that Debian also interprets the GPL the same way as gnu, opencores, xilinx, mesa, Matt Shaver, Peter Wallace, and I all interpret it. If Paul's argument (that you can't build GPL software with proprietary software and distribute the result while complying with all requirements of the GPL) were true then Debian would refrain altogether from distributing the binary firmwares in the usrp-firmware package, not merely segregate it to "non-free". "non-free" doesn't mean "we unrepentantly violate licenses in this section"[2]. > why bundle stuff like yapps as part of the emc2 tarball. Red herring. Jeff [1] http://packages.debian.org/etch/gnuradio http://packages.debian.org/etch/usrp http://packages.debian.org/etch/usrp-firmware http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/usrp-firmware/filelist containing /usr/share/usrp/rev2/multi_2rxhb_2tx.rbf among other files [2] It is most likely that gnuradio is outside of main because of the requirement that packages in main must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package), http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main not because of any GPL violation, which would obviously cause Debian to not distribute the package at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
