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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Jose Bernardo Silva <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>:
> > Seth, 
> > Since the firmware status is still debatable it needs to be supplied by 
> > the
> > user, as it says in the spell DETAILS. The prism54.org team has supplied 
> > now
> > the firmware for direct download, but the licence hasn't been clarified 
> > yet
> > -
> > and I think that the firmware files available there are only for the USA, 
> > as
> > they don't allow using the european-only channels. We could add MD5 sums 
> > for
> > all firmware files available in prism54.org, but I'd bet the ones that 
> > come
> > in
> > the european driver CDs have different MD5 sums.
> 
> Should that package be moved to z-rejected then?

I would say yes because the package is only useful if you use as yet
non-GPL-compatible code.  If one can redistribute the firmware on our
mirrors, I'd still put it in z-rejected as well.  Did we ever decide
what flag to put on non-redistributable sources for DETAILS?

Perhaps:

RESTRICTED[1]="non-redistributable due to license"

And I'd put all the different firmware versions in the DETAILS w/md5s
listed on the website and have the spell ask which one to rename and
use.

Seth

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