On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott(a)ss.org> wrote:
On 10/24/2012 11:11 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> Already aware of it. After all it went via the board for approval first
> ;-)
>
> I was actually working on packaging the firmware this morning so I can
> build a 3.7 kernel for it in rawhide.
>
> Peter
>
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Update to Binary Firmware Exceptions
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:56:24 -0400
>> From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com>
>> To: legal(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>
>> Two minor exceptions have been added to the Licensing Guidelines:
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How does today's announcement of Open-source Userland / Driver code
integrate with this?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
Does it make the issue moot going forward? Or is the issue with the binary
bootloader blob?
The issue is with the bootloader blob. Even with today's announcement
the device wouldn't be useful without the blob. The "first completely
open platform" is a bit misleading with regards to the announcement.
The firmware exception has been in discussion for quite some time so
it's not linked with today's announcement from the RPi foundation.
Peter