Arduino firmware permissible to include?

2013-05-23 Thread Peter Oliver
Arduino is an electronics prototyping board, and also a GNU GPL2-licenced IDE for writing and uploading code to such boards. Fedora has packages for the IDE. Recent versions of the IDE include WiFi firmware for Arduino (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoWiFiShield). The Arduino "source" bundle

Re: Arduino firmware permissible to include?

2013-05-23 Thread Rich Mattes
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Peter Oliver < lists.fedoraproject@mavit.org.uk> wrote: > > Without access to the build scripts (which the GNU GPL2specifically says > must be included), do we even have a licence to redistribute the firmware? > > It looks like the "build scripts" are provided

Re: Arduino firmware permissible to include?

2013-05-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 23/05/2013 15:25, Peter Oliver ha scritto: > Arduino is an electronics prototyping board, and also a GNU > GPL2-licenced IDE for writing and uploading code to such boards. Fedora > has packages for the IDE. > > Recent versions of the IDE include WiFi firmware for Arduino > (http://arduino.cc/e

Re: Arduino firmware permissible to include?

2013-05-25 Thread Dan Horák
On Sat, 25 May 2013 09:59:00 +0200 Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 23/05/2013 15:25, Peter Oliver ha scritto: > > Arduino is an electronics prototyping board, and also a GNU > > GPL2-licenced IDE for writing and uploading code to such boards. > > Fedora has packages for the IDE. > > > > Recent version

Re: Arduino firmware permissible to include?

2013-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 23/05/2013 15:25, Peter Oliver ha scritto: >> Arduino is an electronics prototyping board, and also a GNU >> GPL2-licenced IDE for writing and uploading code to such boards. Fedora >> has packages for the IDE. >> >> Recent versions of the